Are Humans Stupid or Evil?
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There is really no equivalence between the left and the right. There is no liberal version of Glenn Beck, for example. The left has nowhere near the amount of dishonesty, hatred, and factual errors the right has. This type of thinking--"well the far right is crazy so there must be someone just as crazy on the left!!!"--ends up going nowhere and is the laziest way to take a political stance. This Southpark style argument that the insanity is split equally between both aisles is crap and basically what I'm trying to say is pick a side and stick with it.iTeamKill said:
edit: this is offtopic though so ignore me
We can be both if we want.
Stupidity is not knowing something compared to someone else.Example, a professor in a University is smarter then a lot of us because he is a lot more educated ,But he might not be smarter in some other areas.Most Grown-ups aren't as technical savvy as most of us who grew up with them.
As for Evil......well....lets just say values have changed.There use to be a time where people watched out for each other,cared about more then just there wallets,and treated people the way they want to be treated, with out getting paid first. I don't mean to sound dark but for most people Compaction,mercy,and the longing to do whats right is replicated with Greed and self-contentedness.
Stupidity is not knowing something compared to someone else.Example, a professor in a University is smarter then a lot of us because he is a lot more educated ,But he might not be smarter in some other areas.Most Grown-ups aren't as technical savvy as most of us who grew up with them.
As for Evil......well....lets just say values have changed.There use to be a time where people watched out for each other,cared about more then just there wallets,and treated people the way they want to be treated, with out getting paid first. I don't mean to sound dark but for most people Compaction,mercy,and the longing to do whats right is replicated with Greed and self-contentedness.
The natural tendency at one and a half years old is to experiment and try new things. Babies don't chew up paintings and throw food on the walls with malicious intent, and if you really think your nephew is out to tear apart your library because he doesn't want you to be able to read then I don't know what to say.canadamus_prime said:
Okay, I'll emphasize the fact that you say that humans are 'rulers of Earth'. In that, I'll take it to mean that the particular humans that 'rule' our planet are both stupid and evil.Slick Samurai said:
In general, the people we choose to rule over us are stupid. The smartest people in the world do NOT run for public office. Often it's the con men who skate thru life on their charm and other people's foolishness. Are they evil? Not nessesarily.
Usually the component that makes a leader evil is religion. Once somebody believes everything they do is the command of 'God', then they start to do the real wicked and atrocious stuff.
Are all religious leaders evil? Over a long enough time period, the limit of all religious leaders approaches evil.
Are all religious leaders stupid? This is debatable. One could argue that true stupidity is the essence of faith, in that even in the face of overwhelming factual evidence, you disbelieve anything but what is told to you in the first place. Setting that aside, the possiblity emerges that a religious leader could emerge who was smart enough not to buy the crap he preached. In that case he would not be stupid, just very evil.
Oh definitely a bit of both. We're the ONLY species that really goes into warfare, BIG warfare, within it's own species. We're also very prideful, and when something threatens that pride...we try to "remove" it. I mean, we've made theories that center the universe around us. When someone is jealous, greedy, lustful, etc. etc. we just call it "human nature". And I'm not talking about individual humans, I'm talking about the human-kind in general as a species.
Also, who thought up the meaning for the word "humane"? "characterizes tenderness, compassion, and sympathy toward other humans and animals" It seems like an oxymoron to me, like if someone exclaims, "I am humble!" and then brags about how humble he\she is.
Also, who thought up the meaning for the word "humane"? "characterizes tenderness, compassion, and sympathy toward other humans and animals" It seems like an oxymoron to me, like if someone exclaims, "I am humble!" and then brags about how humble he\she is.
This assumes there is such thing as good and evil, Evil being a very general, in my opinion non-exsistant, condition of lack of morality. Same with good being lack of evil. They stem from humans self awareness making them want to justify that awareness with purpose, when really we are a fluke of evolution, just like everything else in existence, and in my opininon, we're a dead end of evolution. Absoulutley no physical superiority to any other species, but our previously mentioned self awarness makes us able to best them, and survive, it so that we don't just want to survive, but prosper in our own little definition of "A Good Life", sucking resources at an exponential rate, killing everything, including ourselvs, and making our planet slowly die. Please don't take from this that I am a supporter of PETA, or any other enviromental, human rights, or animal rights organization at all. Organization implies purpose. And I have none. Just like everyone else. And Everything else.
The pessimistic, misanthropic, nihilist in me says, "Yes!"
The optimistic, hopeful, existentialist in me knows not to question him anymore.
The optimistic, hopeful, existentialist in me knows not to question him anymore.