Originally Posted by
KhainiWest
You mean fight against natural instinct that evolution has apparently passed along in genetics? It's not a human thing, it's an animal thing. Sure the reasons and the complexity varies on intelligence but majority of the animal kingdom has done the same, just at a smaller scale. Hell monkeys wage war on eachother all the time. That's over goddam tree's, our's is to justify our existance.
If evolution has made something to humans, is modify their actions by giving us an advanced brain. We are all animals genetically, it's the actions we take with our evolved brains what makes the difference.
There is so many factors here it's hard to argue it. Nature has a delicate balance, we found an efficient means for travel which increases efficiency, provides convinience and is/was affordable/plentiful. Energy itself produces negative consequences, as does every action, yet without it, you wouldn't be able to access the internet, the greatest source of information. It's not greed, if it were greed we wouldn't be looking at alternatives.
There has been working prototypes of electrical cars, efficient, and clean for quite a looong time now. Be it electric or hydrogen powered. It has been held back for like 20 years now by the companies running petrol. When petrol starts running out, they will switch to the most profitable choice, the alternatives they held back themselves. It's 100% greed.
You can lie to yourself all you like but if you see a person a million sub concious decisions sprout out on how to act on that specific person. It's a defense mechanism. Not everone is a stereotypical of whatever circumstance, but that stereotype came from a truth. Some people just logically blanket it to keep themselves safe, others are open minded to diversity, but that leaves risk.
I myself do that. First I'm careful about a person if he looks suspicious. But I know people who don't care anything else aside from the skin. No matter what kind of person it is, its beliefs, or anything. If that same person is a boss, guess who's not going to hire. One thing's being careful. The other, being a racist.
Currency can be in all forms, would you rather live in the archaic kingdom, live without a leaders? All those things can be applied outside of our species. For one there is the whole food chain thing.
Are you willing to sacrifice your efforts and rewards simply for the next generation? What about your needs? Your survival? Your priorities. When does that wave of "everything for everyone but me" stop? Does the generation that gains the rewards supposed to use the resources themselves or continue to pass it on? Who get's it? It's an empty life. Then again there are stuff called estates to pass down the person's accomplishments to someone else, so a good majority do think of the next generation.
When I'm talking about the next generation, I'm mostly thinking of: "Hey, if I start a war for money here and now, will this start a confortation in generations to come, just like the crusades did?" or "Why don't we start using renewable sources now, instead of turning the air into garbage for our future?". We can't change the past, but most of our problems came from it. And the saddest part is that we have no problem in repeating them. We already got the crusades and the industrial revolution to back this up. There are more subtle examples, I'm sure, but these are my main points.
To be frank, all you did is regurgitate what you see on television, what your parents tell you, and what you see on the general news. You talk like you reached some realization, and if you did, I feel kind of bad because you're kind of late to the party, that was like back in middle school lol
No, I already accepted it, from long ago. But most of the stuff wouldn't have become so rotten if humankind had a different way of thinking. Back in the day and nowadays.
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