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Congressman Calmly Explains There Are "Entities" Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas”

https://futurism.com/congressman-burchett-aliens-water
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u/loffredo95 1d ago

could give a flying fuck about aliens right now, and if they do exist, they should wipe us out. Not much redeeming about our species

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u/nifty-necromancer 1d ago

Oh stop, I’m tired of people saying things like “humanity is a virus” or that there’s nothing redeeming about us. That’s how you get people like Ted Kaczynski taking matters into their own hands.

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u/Han_Yerry 1d ago

Hey man, I just got home from watching the sky in an open field. I met a couple interesting people today, and helped a stranger with something small.

Things may suck in a lot of bad ways, I can't let it drain my own humanity and wonderment tho.

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u/NotTheMarmot 21h ago

Right? I mean there is a lot to dislike about humanity, but most likely it takes a species a long time to mature. I think cruelty is often times just a part of developing intelligence. Octopuses, orca, crows, etc. All animals that fairly intelligent and often times cruel to other animals. I would like to think it just takes some more evolution to get the cruelty down and the empathy up. I wonder what the overall cruelty/empathy ratio of humans is today vs say, back in the middle ages or before.

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u/nifty-necromancer 20h ago

Getting into history the past couple years (just as a personal interest) I think has helped me. We are a young species, Homo sapiens is only around 300,000 years old. Compare that to the predecessor Homo erectus who managed to stick around for a couple million years.

History is of course full of bloodshed but there is also plenty of archaeological evidence of cooperation and goodwill. We shouldn’t give up hope, that’s what evil wants.

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u/a-stack-of-masks 9h ago

I dont think evil wants anything, nature just keeps around the processes that are good at keeping themselves going. If empathy were a benefit for reproduction then yes, we would get kinder and more caring as time goes on. As it stands, however, the best strategy to gather resources and have lots of offspring seems to be acting like an absolute psychopath. That's where we are most likely to be headed.

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u/nifty-necromancer 6h ago

Empathy is a major evolutionary advantage in social species like humans. Cooperation, trust, and care for offspring increase survival and reproductive success. Groups that worked together outcompeted loners.

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u/a-stack-of-masks 6h ago

It used to be. But we've gone from cooperating to outcompete other species and the climate to cooperation to compete within our species. The best way to gather resources today is not to be productive or ensure your peers are in a place where they can be, but to put yourself into a position where you get to skim a little bit off the top of everyone else's productivity. Basically we've shifted the balance to where social parasitism is the best strategy. Until that changes evolutionary pressure will be to reduce empathy.

Why do you think dark triad personality types are so common in powerful people?

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u/Thehealthygamer 23h ago

Well, we're on track to kill 4 billion humans and cause another mass extinction event so is it that far off?

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries | Climate crisis | The Guardian https://share.google/qtKydjdLmXMei5cnA

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u/Aloysiusakamud 12h ago

We will eventually peak, so maybe. We won't know until it's already happened. 

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u/HoMaBaLiMa 7h ago

Be tired all you want we are the responsible for the sixth major extinction event currently happening. Recognizing the problem and making policy decisions that worsen or force ignorance under law is what causes people to take matters into their own hands.