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I think the bad outweighs the good because our culture has a tendency to expand beyond its means. I don't think that in the future when we've destroyed all the natural resources there will be some magic pill to save humanity. And I think that even if there were, who'd save the rest of the creatures on earth? Who's to say they won't one day be capable of thinking on our level or beyond?
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I know that our culture expands beyond its means, and that's something that needs to be changed. The whole point of my post was that the negatives in humanity must be changed, and we shouldn't give up on ourselves yet. But I don't think the bad outweighs the good yet, because most of us are willing to change our ways. We just haven't done it yet.
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I'm not sure I have a clue what you mean, here. Everything living uses resources, what makes our cultures different from most animals is that we're driven to over-use. Our societal idea of the perfect life happens to be one that is exceedingly resource heavy. One might argue that animals tend to over-use as well, (and one would be right) but other animals aren't capable of exploiting as well as we are. Does that mean we should? We're the only species that can cause nuclear winter, therefore we should?
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What I meant was, we're able to think of new ways to use resources. Our species was built on the use of tools, essentially, and tools require more resources than just food sources. As we develop more tools, we require more resources. We are driven to over-use, but only because of our need for tools. I'm not saying at all that we should be allowed to take whatever we please. What I'm saying is that we should be allowed to live within our means without getting rid of necessary things.
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I may have missed something, but I don't recall anyone suggesting we toss out science, or abandon art and culture. The last two aren't even things we could abandon if we wanted too. We're hardwired, so to speak. Nevertheless, the pussy way out is to accept the eventual destruction of the earth's species to feed us as the inevitable way of things. The pussy way out is saying, "We're smarter than anything else so we deserve whatever we can get."
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I wasn't making any remarks about what anyone has said here. Rather, I was talking more about the idea of anti-humanism. I suppose I shouldn't've said art and culture. I figured I was on a roll. I figured wrong.