@Moon Flower
I feel like this is something you need a shotgun to say correctly.
“Well, I always held the belief that either all lives mattered… [CHK-CHK] …or none do.”
That’s a cute Zeeb.
The only lives who matter in the universe are those who can break the Great Filter … otherwise anything any living being ever did on your planet was entirely pointless.
And considering mankind’s current priorities, it’s not looking good … so that Zeeb is both cute AND right.
@Havock
We also send doctors to combat Ebola, and they went knowing that there was a very real chance they’d die far away from home. People donate their wealth to good causes every day, and there are those who spend what little free time they have helping others. People exist who are developing technology and medicine because it is their ion and because they want to make the world a better place to live in, not because they want to make money off of it. Do you blame the doctors for the pollution? Is the person who spends hours every weekend at a soup kitchen responsible for the extinction of the dodo? Should I look into the eyes of someone developing new technology to make life easier for those who need artificial limbs and tell him that he’s an irredeemable bastard, and that I’ll be happy when he’s dead?
“Humanity” is not one single individual that can be judged like binary: good or bad. There are good people and there are bad people, and it’s bafflingly simplistic and neglectfully ignorant to declare our species as a whole as “terrible”; if the bad counts so much that 7.5 billion people can be condemned, then the good should have just as much meaning and significance; the bad cannot have meaning without good to act in contrast to it, and if the good doesn’t “count” then the bad cannot be categorized.
@FlutterMEDIC1
“Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
As Mark Twain once wrote: “It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”
: nowadays centrists and und “don’t exist” but you can be nonbinary sexually.
I feel like this is something you need a shotgun to say correctly.
“Well, I always held the belief that either all lives mattered… [CHK-CHK] …or none do.”
No, All Lives Matter is also a centrist take.
THIS
Maybe Yggdrasil.
The only lives who matter in the universe are those who can break the Great Filter … otherwise anything any living being ever did on your planet was entirely pointless.
And considering mankind’s current priorities, it’s not looking good … so that Zeeb is both cute AND right.
Another epic comment to add to my list. Nice!
We also send doctors to combat Ebola, and they went knowing that there was a very real chance they’d die far away from home. People donate their wealth to good causes every day, and there are those who spend what little free time they have helping others. People exist who are developing technology and medicine because it is their ion and because they want to make the world a better place to live in, not because they want to make money off of it. Do you blame the doctors for the pollution? Is the person who spends hours every weekend at a soup kitchen responsible for the extinction of the dodo? Should I look into the eyes of someone developing new technology to make life easier for those who need artificial limbs and tell him that he’s an irredeemable bastard, and that I’ll be happy when he’s dead?
“Humanity” is not one single individual that can be judged like binary: good or bad. There are good people and there are bad people, and it’s bafflingly simplistic and neglectfully ignorant to declare our species as a whole as “terrible”; if the bad counts so much that 7.5 billion people can be condemned, then the good should have just as much meaning and significance; the bad cannot have meaning without good to act in contrast to it, and if the good doesn’t “count” then the bad cannot be categorized.
Don’t be Goul-ish.
is anyone protesting what the Romans did to the Gouls?
“Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach.
Does that answer your questions, Doctor?”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen
I hope they’re worst. I have 10 bucks riding on it.
Also, nothing ensures that if we extinct tomorrow, the next species to evolve will be better.
It could be even worse than us.