Your prediction on the future of the human race

[Miharuka]

Hmm..
I am not sure about someone taking a bullet for a person they love.
They won't do it only for the the person they care about, but also for theirself in a way. They can't imagine a life without that person, of course. But what if that person thinks the same thing? And needs a life without the person they loved the most as well. Whenever the person can be happy with taking your life for that person or not, is pretty much unknown in the end. But at any rate, whenever it's good or not, I think risking a life for another person is a very brave thing to do and most people won't do such a thing. ^^

And yeah, we humans pretty much usually try to just safe our own lifes. For most it's the first thing you can think about. That's just how pretty much everyone of us works. So I gotta agree with Woeler in this.

[Azdgari]

The way people act in everyday life = 99.9999% of the time

The way people act in life/death scenario = 0.0001% of the time

Why are we only arguing about life and death?

[wolfishgirl]

Woeler when u say that people cant change i have go arugue
people do change and ghey change all the time. But most of
those changes r small and happen over a vast amount of
time.

[Azdgari]

Do you believe that progress is pointless? Your logic seems to be "why try to improve the world, it's impossible." If it's 'impossible' to improve humanity, why don't we just revert back to the dark ages when we brutally killed each other whenever we liked, denouncing culture and science? Isn't that where your logic leads, that we're no better now than we were then and that we never will be? If not, then stop saying that it's futile to try to improve humanity.

Obviously we're going to try to be utopian: does a musician say "i want to be a minor star" or a baseball player say "i want to be a minor leaguer when i grow up." Obviously we should aspire to the best. Utopianism may be impossible, but "Shoot for the moon. even if you miss, you're pretty damn up there." As long as we continue to improve ourselves, there's hope for humanity. The only way there isn't hope is if we forsake ourselves and declare progress impossible.

[wolfishgirl]

I say go back to the dark ages so that we get rid of technology.

[wolfishgirl]

Woeler, you are right there, we will never change. That's why I say we kidnap a bunch of babies, build a self-suficent dome in south america and nuke the rest of the planet.

[wolfishgirl]

what's with the image that won't showup?

[Azdgari]

Gays are getting rights around the world, women are getting stronger rights in Catholocism and Islam, countries are overthrowing oppression in the middle east, Iran and Israel are still screwed up but it's not like that's anything new. Malaria's been almost eliminated in the last fifty years thanks to Mr. Gates donating his entire personal fortune, more aid then ever before in history is feeding the hungry and building schools / infrastructure in third world countries largely due to volunteering through organizations like peace corp but also largely through charitable aid from other countries (USA leads the world). Racism and religious persecution among non-radicals has been continually diminishing in the world over the last fifty years (outside the middle east). Geneva convention represented a quantum leap forward in the defense of basic human rights and has all but eradicated use of torture by non middle eastern countries (USA had a tough streak there but thankfully GITMO is closed and over with).

So clearly we're no better off than the dark ages.

[wolfishgirl]

Do not talk about how great the US is, if we were so great we would take care of ourselves first. While we are busy sticking our noses where they don't belong our country is falling apart around us.
I don't mean to sound so negative, but as we progress more and more with technology, we are making it so we can surivive by ourselves less and less.

[Kitva Hyperlink]

*quietly tiptoes out*