NationStates Jolt Archive

Arguably an egopost, to coin a term which should have been termed eons ago with some of the things that pop up here, but just wondering whether anyone else here is of the opinion that, to be frank, it's just plain not worth it?
Not worth arguing with people who are happy to let everyone else go to the wall for the sake of 'national security' and making sure they don't have to alter their own lives. Not worth trying to stop idiots polluting the planet when we'll all be dead in fifty years or so anyway, so we might as well just avoid leaving descendents and let our opponents' children rot in the filth their parents have created, while we rest in blissful oblivion. Not worth trying to care, when the human race's definition of concepts like 'honour', 'trust', 'peace', 'compassion', 'love', 'common humanity' and so on can be boiled down to "Nice, till something more immediately profitable turns up". Not worth, in fact, wasting any more effort trying to make the world better or spread and share happiness, because the human race is a genetic mistake that we only have the transient misfortune to be associated with while we're alive.
No offence to all the many good, kind people around, either in reality or on this forum, but, to be honest, I've really had it up to here with homo sapiens and their vicious brutality at the moment.
Your thoughts welcomed.

Hard arguing with the truth. We get so much garbage posted. People frequently delight in our dead. No point in arguing with evil. :?

Seeing the look on peoples faces when they realize that they really have destroyed the planet will be kinda fun...

Well, here's my theory:

All of nature exists in a system of checks and balances. Every creature has some sort of natural enemy or competitor to keep it's population in check, or some specific food source that can regulate it. Nature is a self-perpetuationg cycle that will evolve itself through cyclical stages of balance.

Or WOULD have, untill humanity came in.

Humanity, for whatever reason, dodged the bullet and managed to remove itself from the niche that the rest of nature was confined to. Any "natural" enemy, such as other animals, weather, or desise, are easily countered through adaptation or technology.

However, nature had a much more subtle way to bring humanity back to the ground after it started to spiral out of it's control. Notice that there is one feature that ONLY human beings have, and only human beings are truly capable of: stupidity.

Stupidity is a purely human trait. As stupidity is the lack of common reason or intellect, only humans are intellectually developed enough to become "brilliant," but brilliance is only an absence of stupidity, and stupidity is only existant in creatures with a certain intellectual capability. No other animal has the capacity for advanced intellegence, and thus cannot be held accountable for lacking something it cannot have.

By infusing humanity with stupidity, nature has, in a sense, made humanity it's own natural enemy. War, murder, greed, hatred, and the like are all logically incompatable with the advancement of a species and are thus the undoing of a species. Humanity will eventually cancel itself out through said stupidity, and nature will simply restore the balance as before.

So, I guess it could be said that due to the human potential for stupidity, things such as "morals," or "values" are intrinsicly pointless.

But what else should we do with our time? I say video games.

"There are only two things I am sure are eternal: the universe and human stupidity. Although, i'm not too sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

From now on, could anyone who thinks that the human race should die kill themselves, for everyone's sake?

Well, actually Vitania, just not reproducing would serve the purpose equally well. I fully intend to enjoy my life, and I'll do what I can to bring happiness into the lives of those I care about... but I will not be contributing to the creation of a new generation, because I don't want to push additional people to whom I'd bear responsibility into a future that, thanks to morons like Bush and his ilk, will be fairly bleak, and I've just... given up on common humanity.