Yakoob on 19/7/2016 at 17:52
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
Of course. I apologize. The guy was angry at his ex-wife. That's why he killed 84 random people. Got nothing to do with IS or Islam. Happens all the time.
Happens in the US all the time. Hello school shootings...
Nicker on 19/7/2016 at 20:21
Quote Posted by Abysmal
I wonder if Middle Easterners on the internet say "hold up, let's be calm and wait for the facts to come out first" every time a bomb goes off in their country.
So, it's OK because "they" did it first?
faetal on 19/7/2016 at 20:52
Quote Posted by Abysmal
Say hello to the sixth mass extinction (scientifically proven).
Yes, but that extinction is not defined by humans dying out, but the number of species becoming extinct over time. Humans are just 1.
Nicker on 19/7/2016 at 21:20
Humans are one of the species that is sufficiently dispersed, resilient and adaptive to survive it's own extinction event. Us, the rats and the roaches. God loves beetles.
Vivian on 19/7/2016 at 22:22
The thing about roaches surviving nukes is a myth. They're actually slightly more susceptible to radiation than the average animal.
faetal on 19/7/2016 at 23:00
Humans are super adaptable. I can see us being decimated, but not easily wiped out, short of a Permian-Triassic type situation.
Yakoob on 20/7/2016 at 02:52
Honestly, earth could use with a few less of us. Not that I am advocating for nuclear war or these kind events though.
But then again, we didn't need overpopulation to be massive dicks invading each other for space and resources in the past...
Quote Posted by Abysmal
I do expect some seriously dark shit in my lifetime. I've decided I'm OK with it.
Meh, every generation goes through some "dark shit" really, just the flavor changes.
Pyrian on 20/7/2016 at 03:51
Quote Posted by Abysmal
I've decided I'm OK with it.
This is the attitude that bothers me the most. I know plenty of people ready to let the world burn, basically because Hillary Clinton didn't sufficiently secure her e-mails. Or because of these crazy over-publicized attacks that are so far from putting a dent in death statistics that they'd simply disappear into the noise if the people involved had died of regular accidents. They don't really matter -
except that they help people act
more crazy.
We've got a lot of problems, but we've also got a lot of solutions. The world overall is more peaceful than it's ever been. We should celebrate and capitalize on it, rather than obsessing over the fact that certain crapzones remain crappy. We could easily solve the global warming problem and put a huge dent in environmental degradation - all we'd have to do is decide to do it.
We won't, and people are resigning themselves to something that is in no way inevitable
except that people are resigning themselves to it.
faetal on 20/7/2016 at 08:28
The number of humans doesn't really affect "earth" per se, just the conditions on earth. We aren't destroying the planet, just its ability to carry us and some other species. Thinking of it as catastrophic somehow is like thinking of the growing number of plants way back when as being catastrophic for increasing the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction wiped out an estimated 95% of all life on earth, yet the complexity and diversity we see today arose from the remaining 5%, so it's no biggie in the grand scale of things. Humans need to get over themselves.
demagogue on 20/7/2016 at 08:54
One of Nietzsche's points was that every great creation requires great destruction to pave the way.
Of course he was speaking more metaphorically about beliefs.
Wait, how did we even derail this thread into this territory?
Then again, it reminds me how popular the "Giant Meteor 2016" bumper stickers are for this US presidential election.
