Sexual Harassment Panda said:
It doesn't have to be a positive or a negative. It can just be incidental. I was only disputing the implication that mankind is only being true to itself when it is being violent and destructive. I think that if you give most people the chance to be peaceful and friendly, they will jump at it. Does the severe lack of soldiers willing to fight our wars not hint that maybe we desire peace and aren't just looking for any excuse to destroy?
"Lack of soldiers"? Forgive me for saying so but it seems there's always plenty of idiots you can trick into "serving their country", so I don't know if I agree with you there.
Second, people don't really jump at being peaceful. The persistent crime rate and domestic, everyday violence all over the world plainly shows what "fans of peace" people really are. And even in our so called "civilised" and "modern" industrial nations we still cultivate and nurture a culture that clearly promotes violent behaviour. We always talk about individualism and the importance of not allowing oneself become discriminated or "dissed" in any form or fashion and the demand of "respectz".
Of course, most individualists are going to excuse themselves by saying: "oh no, we never advocated violence at all. This ideology of ours doesn't in any way mention any advocacy of violence", but even a blind person can see how that doesn't work in reality. If you raise people in a manner that actually promotes conflict with people of different opinions, then there will be blood. History has shown us this over and over. So either our so called "modern society" isn't as smart/intelligent as it makes itself out to be all the fucking time, or the citizens of said society are just a bunch of flaming hypocrites.
Either way, it does not paint a pretty picture of mankind in general, and I for one don't see the reason in sticking by a bunch of hypocritical ideals of a better world. It's just not gonna happen, because the answer of how to achieve a better world is staring pretty much everyone in the face, but no one is really willing to work towards it.
So it doesn't really matter what a few people actually achieve in their pursuit of doing good, because their actions are ultimately turned to shit by the rest of the awful species. Any good deed will pretty much always have ten bad ones to counter-balance it, regardless of time or place.
So there's only two ways to give a satisfying conclusion. Either ultimate extermination, or simply dropping all the hypocrisy.
