You know what "those children in Africa" would be doing if they felt like you? They'd be killing themselves before they had a chance to starve to death.
You know what you find in communities stricken by poverty and violence, instead? An overwhelming desire to live, to overcome, to find joy.
Look back 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years at human history.
Compare that with now.
See how far we've come as a whole.
So what if the journey isn't over? So what if there's still inequality, poverty, hatred, violence, war, famine... Are we supposed to use the worst extremes of humanity to justify a resentment of the whole? Are we supposed to become recluses, burdened by our bitterness, not seeking to further progress but instead disavowing our species?
That's a cowardly cynic's reaction to a difficult problem.
If you can't see the "huge and continuous effort from the majority of people to work together to survive - and thrive, for our mutual benefit", then as far as I'm concerned, you're missing out on a significant (and gratifying) portion of life. One which provides hope - hope which pushes people to cure 'the cancers' you speak of.
'This won't go anywhere' was right, because you clearly have a fundamentally negative disposition. I don't "look on the bright side", I look at the whole picture, which is as replete with light as it is darkness. You, on the other hand, 'look on the dark side', you see the world as horrible and joy as delusion.
On this we'll have to agree to disagree. Enjoy your Wii.
Agree to disagree, indeed, my friend. I think the one point we both share is that the world has problems we need to solve and we must solve them.
"They'd be killing themselves before they had a chance to starve to death."
Wrong. They would no longer hold on to the false hope that other people would step in to save them and instead solve the problems themselves--permanently.
IIN that I'm a Antinatalist?
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You know what "those children in Africa" would be doing if they felt like you? They'd be killing themselves before they had a chance to starve to death.
You know what you find in communities stricken by poverty and violence, instead? An overwhelming desire to live, to overcome, to find joy.
Look back 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years at human history.
Compare that with now.
See how far we've come as a whole.
So what if the journey isn't over? So what if there's still inequality, poverty, hatred, violence, war, famine... Are we supposed to use the worst extremes of humanity to justify a resentment of the whole? Are we supposed to become recluses, burdened by our bitterness, not seeking to further progress but instead disavowing our species?
That's a cowardly cynic's reaction to a difficult problem.
If you can't see the "huge and continuous effort from the majority of people to work together to survive - and thrive, for our mutual benefit", then as far as I'm concerned, you're missing out on a significant (and gratifying) portion of life. One which provides hope - hope which pushes people to cure 'the cancers' you speak of.
'This won't go anywhere' was right, because you clearly have a fundamentally negative disposition. I don't "look on the bright side", I look at the whole picture, which is as replete with light as it is darkness. You, on the other hand, 'look on the dark side', you see the world as horrible and joy as delusion.
On this we'll have to agree to disagree. Enjoy your Wii.
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Agree to disagree, indeed, my friend. I think the one point we both share is that the world has problems we need to solve and we must solve them.
"They'd be killing themselves before they had a chance to starve to death."
Wrong. They would no longer hold on to the false hope that other people would step in to save them and instead solve the problems themselves--permanently.