. . . seems to be an undeniable, unchanging characteristic of the human race. I’ve said before it’s interesting that, as a species, most of us are prone to anger and violence primarily, while decency requires work.
Wells, anger and violence is what won the homo sapiens the path to propagate. We killed all the other homo species that existed during the time humans sprang up. We were the version that killed and survived on…so…yeah, what survives and continues on are the “strong” aka assholes
Wait. So if what survives are selfish assholes, that means with each successive generation, people become even more asshole-ish than the past generations? Then that means we as a species are only going to get worse, if the “asshole” trait is what survives and gets passed down.
Without intervention from a higher source, yes. The survival mechanism coded into our DNA, combined with our level of, ahem, . . . “evolution”, means we will become maintain our level of superiority in the food chain until something more nasty decides we’d taste good with mayonnaise. And we didn’t get here by being nice.
Because human beings lack the capacity to leave well enough alone. It’s almost genetic that people can’t be friendly towards and extend understanding to others – without the presence of coercion, or the threat of force – as peers. It’s just impossible. Everybody wants to be top of the totem pole, when really, we’re all down in the mud fighting over worms.
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. . . seems to be an undeniable, unchanging characteristic of the human race. I’ve said before it’s interesting that, as a species, most of us are prone to anger and violence primarily, while decency requires work.
Wells, anger and violence is what won the homo sapiens the path to propagate. We killed all the other homo species that existed during the time humans sprang up. We were the version that killed and survived on…so…yeah, what survives and continues on are the “strong” aka assholes
Wait. So if what survives are selfish assholes, that means with each successive generation, people become even more asshole-ish than the past generations? Then that means we as a species are only going to get worse, if the “asshole” trait is what survives and gets passed down.
Without intervention from a higher source, yes. The survival mechanism coded into our DNA, combined with our level of, ahem, . . . “evolution”, means we will become maintain our level of superiority in the food chain until something more nasty decides we’d taste good with mayonnaise. And we didn’t get here by being nice.
“And we didn’t get here by being nice.”
Nope, we sure didn’t. It’s all so depressing. And people wonder why some people are depressed.
What is it that you dislike the most about the human race?
Everything.
I see
Because human beings lack the capacity to leave well enough alone. It’s almost genetic that people can’t be friendly towards and extend understanding to others – without the presence of coercion, or the threat of force – as peers. It’s just impossible. Everybody wants to be top of the totem pole, when really, we’re all down in the mud fighting over worms.
Yes.
No.
🙂