I don’t even have to pretend to be another species… Observing them as a human I’d only give them 2 out of 10. Another intelligent race capable of observing us wouldn’t even give us a rating please… lol
As a human probably a 1, a 10 for the smart ones, but the majority a 1. As a outside species a 0 and probably wouldn’t even wasted 25 years observing, which could have been used to annihilate all living species and reap the natural resources on this planet without empathy. Lol.
What are we observing them for? morality or intellect? are we trying to determine if they are good or if they are smart?….or even both maybe?….In the last 25 years… lets see that would be about…1988…so what have humans done since?…well I’m not going to name everything specifically I’ll just say “a lot”
If I were rating humanity based on my observations of morality and intellect I’d give them a 5 and 8 in the respective areas….I don’t think we are as low as a simple 1 or 2….we aren’t that dumb and not all humans are demonic seeds…
2-3/10… i consider most animals to be smarter than humans… it is hard to rate in absolutes when you know not everyone are the same… so i’m leaving those few “good ones” out
@keief: You consider…..animals? to be smarter than humans?…find the dumbest human you can…then go find the smartest animal you can….that human still beats that animal in the area of intellect….
If you say you can’t rate in absolutes then how can you do that very thing by leaving the “good ones out” because if you do that what are you left with? nothing good…something absolutely evil….if you purposely exclude the good then its biased and thus an invalid observation because the good side is unaccounted for.
the only option is to generalize 7 billion humans…there is no way in hell I could research and observe every single human all the time….so you would have to choose about 100 maybe 200 and watch them to get an idea of humanity….
@Kurt Copain: I guess i should have said i value animals more than i value most people, it’s late here and i’m sleepy, didn’t think that one was not clear… shouldn’t have used the word smart, or anything related to intelligence for that matter. Also, there was no “rating criteria” for the question, no rules, so i just kind of… just answered, haha.
And you can sure leave the “really good ones out”, because, wouldn’t that leave the average+bad in, and that is the majority? i’ve always assumed that another species would save the good ones and just let the rest to rot, so maybe that’s why i see it that way 😀
@keief: I’m just thinking in terms of a humanoid alien species….certainly they would want to know of the good and the bad…even though bad/average is the majority I am sure that even the alien species would be that way as well…certainly they have “alien prisons” or something like that for the bad ones….and I’m sure they would want to study the good ones and observe them as well to gather correct data….if they were planning on blowing all the humans to oblivion unless they saw some goodness somewhere you bet your ass I’d want the good in there somewhere lol
@KurtC: Yeah, i know about good/bad even amongst aliens, but i assume they would study people in here, then save the good ones, say “fuck the rest, i give them a 2/10” and blow up the place to smithereens… too much asumptions on how aliens works haha. It’s also that i find it unfair to bring down the good ones score because of the bad majority… i used to be the typical guy who would want to be graded separately on group homework assignments even if i had the lower grade, so that may explain it, lol.
Keief: yeah but its just speculation and stuff….nothing serious….but I do realize that is “unfair” but in order to get a full understanding of them you would have to accept that…even though majority of people are average or evil I don’t think they need to be exterminated…after all you wouldn’t know the aliens criteria for good….what if it was… “anybody with a K in their name is evil”…me and you both are goners buddy lol….
If you were going to be graded separately it destroys the whole purpose of “group” …those type of assignments are usually to develop teamwork skills not necessarily to reflect on you as an individual…
We got 10/10 and we got 0/10 examples of the human species both in morale and intelligence (morale includes intelligence most of the time, not vice versa though).
And the 10/10 guy surely didn’t become 10/10 just by himself, he used what society offered him. One thought would be to let someone live a life with any possible start: Child of an investment banker or born in African slums etc. Of course this isn’t possible but it could give some ‘rating’. The only question that remains is if there is more to us than merely our experinces and biography.
Im also not as pessimistic as most others here since humanity achieved alot: Human rights, UN, science etc. Of course none of these are perfect but they are better than nothing. If the rating was some absolute rating I would probably go something 6/10 overall. But if the rating is supposed to be what we could achieve if we would all work together, no more wars etc it would be way worse.
I am an alien and I give it a 1. Abort the experiment, clean the lab equipment, forget it ever happened. Life, miserable, humans useless bickering primates.
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I don’t even have to pretend to be another species… Observing them as a human I’d only give them 2 out of 10. Another intelligent race capable of observing us wouldn’t even give us a rating please… lol
i agree pink_star
As a human probably a 1, a 10 for the smart ones, but the majority a 1. As a outside species a 0 and probably wouldn’t even wasted 25 years observing, which could have been used to annihilate all living species and reap the natural resources on this planet without empathy. Lol.
What are we observing them for? morality or intellect? are we trying to determine if they are good or if they are smart?….or even both maybe?….In the last 25 years… lets see that would be about…1988…so what have humans done since?…well I’m not going to name everything specifically I’ll just say “a lot”
If I were rating humanity based on my observations of morality and intellect I’d give them a 5 and 8 in the respective areas….I don’t think we are as low as a simple 1 or 2….we aren’t that dumb and not all humans are demonic seeds…
2-3/10… i consider most animals to be smarter than humans… it is hard to rate in absolutes when you know not everyone are the same… so i’m leaving those few “good ones” out
@keief: You consider…..animals? to be smarter than humans?…find the dumbest human you can…then go find the smartest animal you can….that human still beats that animal in the area of intellect….
If you say you can’t rate in absolutes then how can you do that very thing by leaving the “good ones out” because if you do that what are you left with? nothing good…something absolutely evil….if you purposely exclude the good then its biased and thus an invalid observation because the good side is unaccounted for.
the only option is to generalize 7 billion humans…there is no way in hell I could research and observe every single human all the time….so you would have to choose about 100 maybe 200 and watch them to get an idea of humanity….
@Kurt Copain: I guess i should have said i value animals more than i value most people, it’s late here and i’m sleepy, didn’t think that one was not clear… shouldn’t have used the word smart, or anything related to intelligence for that matter. Also, there was no “rating criteria” for the question, no rules, so i just kind of… just answered, haha.
And you can sure leave the “really good ones out”, because, wouldn’t that leave the average+bad in, and that is the majority? i’ve always assumed that another species would save the good ones and just let the rest to rot, so maybe that’s why i see it that way 😀
@keief: I’m just thinking in terms of a humanoid alien species….certainly they would want to know of the good and the bad…even though bad/average is the majority I am sure that even the alien species would be that way as well…certainly they have “alien prisons” or something like that for the bad ones….and I’m sure they would want to study the good ones and observe them as well to gather correct data….if they were planning on blowing all the humans to oblivion unless they saw some goodness somewhere you bet your ass I’d want the good in there somewhere lol
@KurtC: Yeah, i know about good/bad even amongst aliens, but i assume they would study people in here, then save the good ones, say “fuck the rest, i give them a 2/10” and blow up the place to smithereens… too much asumptions on how aliens works haha. It’s also that i find it unfair to bring down the good ones score because of the bad majority… i used to be the typical guy who would want to be graded separately on group homework assignments even if i had the lower grade, so that may explain it, lol.
Keief: yeah but its just speculation and stuff….nothing serious….but I do realize that is “unfair” but in order to get a full understanding of them you would have to accept that…even though majority of people are average or evil I don’t think they need to be exterminated…after all you wouldn’t know the aliens criteria for good….what if it was… “anybody with a K in their name is evil”…me and you both are goners buddy lol….
If you were going to be graded separately it destroys the whole purpose of “group” …those type of assignments are usually to develop teamwork skills not necessarily to reflect on you as an individual…
We got 10/10 and we got 0/10 examples of the human species both in morale and intelligence (morale includes intelligence most of the time, not vice versa though).
And the 10/10 guy surely didn’t become 10/10 just by himself, he used what society offered him. One thought would be to let someone live a life with any possible start: Child of an investment banker or born in African slums etc. Of course this isn’t possible but it could give some ‘rating’. The only question that remains is if there is more to us than merely our experinces and biography.
Im also not as pessimistic as most others here since humanity achieved alot: Human rights, UN, science etc. Of course none of these are perfect but they are better than nothing. If the rating was some absolute rating I would probably go something 6/10 overall. But if the rating is supposed to be what we could achieve if we would all work together, no more wars etc it would be way worse.
A 3 or 4 sounds about right to me. There’s too much imbalance in the world for me to give humanity a 5.
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I am an alien and I give it a 1. Abort the experiment, clean the lab equipment, forget it ever happened. Life, miserable, humans useless bickering primates.
I agree with poisontongue