Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33246115-20180114011022/@comment-24729606-20190919225259

Qwertyboi89 wrote: MJM1035 wrote: firstly as far as whether or not i would trust the entity offering such a promise that is very nearly irrelevant. any being powerful enough to make such an offer is not one that one would want to offend. i would accept the offer but would ask for a single wish instead of powers. that wish would be that humanity never existed. based on what we as a species have done both to the planet and to each other the millennia it seems to me at least that we do not deserve to continue. without us Earth (and probably the universe at large) would be far better off. damn... are you really sure though? Well firstly I have studied human history and the history of the natural world (at least as its been filtered through human experience) and have thought about it a great deal. Of this much I am sure. bringing life up to a clever level is fairly easily (in fact one could argue that such a thing is an evolutionary necessity) but to grow from cleverness to being intelligent enough to recognize ones own state of being as an entirely different matter. Humanity alone of all Earthly species can do so. Yet what has humanity done with this accidental evolutionary leap. fight among ourselves for reasons that we condemn almost immediately thereafter, abuse virtually every resource and creature we come across, and once they've finished exploiting an environment all but forget we are the cause of the resultant problems. We keep trying to change but we always backslide right into old patterns and habits. So yes I am as certain as I can be that humanity (with only the RAREST of exceptions) needs a severe reduction in numbers at least and eradication at best.