12-10-2015, 11:09 PM
(12-10-2015, 11:04 PM)Surge Wrote: Humanity is pretty badass. In less than 50 years we went from motorcycle powered gliders to fully functional jet aircraft, and then in another 50 years we reached orbit.
Thousands of years ago we drove an apex predator to extinction just for our own amusement because everything else had been done already.
When barbarians destroyed civilization as we knew it it then bounced back stronger than ever.
Human individuals are shitty but as a species we are so resilient and ingenious it's hard to not admire it sometimes.
Agreed. Look at people like Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein, and suddenly science and math seem a lot cooler and fun. Or at incredible leaders, like Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr, and you feel like you can do anything. Look at the kind acts people do for each other, even on a rare occasion, and you want to go and help people. Humanity has its shining gems, and we should all aspire to be like them. But most of the people I've met are immature, rude, borderline retarded, greedy, disgusting shameful excuses for human beings. Maybe I'm no better, but I like to think that I at least hold myself to a strict moral code, and a sense of honor.