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JS80

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: lyssword
You hate all the people, but think about it, without other people you WOULD NOT EXIST.
Sounds like a good trade-off to me.

lol and the troll reveals himself.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: Vic
Who are those "most people" that you hate if not a personal representation? Exactly what is it that you hate about that does not represent self-hatred? More to the point: can a human being feel hatred without self-hatred? The answer to that last one is no (of course).
You make a very good point, I must hate myself somewhat if I hate most people as I am after all a person. That doesn't change my view though, sorry.

Originally posted by: Vic
Which must explain your defensiveness. I'm not bothered by your own opinion. Just like your asshole, you're entitled to have and keep it. I certainly wouldn't want to take it away when it's so fun to ridicule it. Nor am I expressing morality. This is logic. You said you wanted every human being to die as though you weren't one.
I don't claim not to be one, I even said that I'll go gladly when I know many more go before/with me. If anyone's being defensive it's you, because you immediately decided to jump all over my opinion as if it actually harms you in some way.

Like I said; Just give yourself a pat on the back, you're obviously a shining example of morality and I am obviously just disgusting.
Well... evil begins with the objectification of other human beings for the sake of selfish intentions, i.e. "the ends justify the means," etc.

Anyway, it's amusing that you're trying to blow off my disgust for your outspoken personal desire for the death of every man, woman, and child of the human race as pretentious morality on my part. :p
 

Ulfhednar

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Originally posted by: JS80
lol and the troll reveals himself.
How am I trolling? I've said just that since the beginning, that I would happily go if most/everyone else did too. It's an opinion, and it might be a crap one to you and you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is crap, but leave the infantile trolling rubbish out thanks.

Originally posted by: Vic
Anyway, it's amusing that you're trying to blow off my disgust for your outspoken personal desire for the death of every man, woman, and child of the human race as pretentious morality on my part. :p
I'm not just trying to "blow it off," you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is disgusting. I just don't see why it's such a problem for you.

Isn't there a saying that goes; "I might not like what he says, but I'll defend his right to say it"?
 

Ryan

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Current western culture is too self serving - too self centered for the world to reach mass enlightenment.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: JS80
lol and the troll reveals himself.
How am I trolling? I've said just that since the beginning, that I would happily go if most/everyone else did too. It's an opinion, and it might be a crap one to you and you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is crap, but leave the infantile trolling rubbish out thanks.
The only way you would not be trolling would be if you could admit that simple logic demands -- in order to support your argument -- that you be willing to go first as well as last. Otherwise, you're just chickensh!t.

To be clear here, I am not trying to push you into committing suicide. Quite the opposite. I'm just trying to show you how ridiculous your argument is. Externalizaton does not exist. What exists, exists, and nothing else besides. You cannot view as though from outside something that you are a part of. Humanity's evil is matched solely by its goodness, and vice versa, for such is how good and evil are defined. That you choose to judge humanity solely by its evil, and proclaim the sentence of death for all upon it, is the fault of your own perception and nothing more.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: JS80
lol and the troll reveals himself.
How am I trolling? I've said just that since the beginning, that I would happily go if most/everyone else did too. It's an opinion, and it might be a crap one to you and you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is crap, but leave the infantile trolling rubbish out thanks.

Originally posted by: Vic
Anyway, it's amusing that you're trying to blow off my disgust for your outspoken personal desire for the death of every man, woman, and child of the human race as pretentious morality on my part. :p
I'm not just trying to "blow it off," you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is disgusting. I just don't see why it's such a problem for you.

Isn't there a saying that goes; "I might not like what he says, but I'll defend his right to say it"?

Well, if you're not trolling, i hope you don't go committing mass murder or cause mass suicide. You have serious issues.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Current western culture is too self serving - too self centered for the world to reach mass enlightenment.
You mean that it is based off of individualism? There is a flipside there, of course, which is eastern culture being insufficiently self-centered such that the means justify the ends mentality also prevents enlightenment.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Current western culture is too self serving - too self centered for the world to reach mass enlightenment.

:laugh:

oh please teach us, enlightened one
 

Ulfhednar

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Originally posted by: Vic
The only way you would not be trolling would be if you could admit that simple logic demands -- in order to support your argument -- that you be willing to go first as well as last. Otherwise, you're just chickensh!t.
I'm not trolling, I assure you, but you have to understand that I never said my opinion was logical in the first place. This isn't debate club, it's ATOT.

Originally posted by: Vic
Quite the opposite. I'm just trying to show you how ridiculous your argument is.
It's not an argument, it's an opinion. I know you don't like it, but I don't know why you feel so threatened by it that you must challenge it at every turn and even try to take it into the realms of "logical debate" when my opinion is not the slightest bit logical.

Originally posted by: JS80
Well, if you're not trolling, i hope you don't go committing mass murder or cause mass suicide. You have serious issues.
Oh, I am aware.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: JS80
lol and the troll reveals himself.
How am I trolling? I've said just that since the beginning, that I would happily go if most/everyone else did too. It's an opinion, and it might be a crap one to you and you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is crap, but leave the infantile trolling rubbish out thanks.

Originally posted by: Vic
Anyway, it's amusing that you're trying to blow off my disgust for your outspoken personal desire for the death of every man, woman, and child of the human race as pretentious morality on my part. :p
I'm not just trying to "blow it off," you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is disgusting. I just don't see why it's such a problem for you.

Isn't there a saying that goes; "I might not like what he says, but I'll defend his right to say it"?

Well, if you're not trolling, i hope you don't go committing mass murder or cause mass suicide. You have serious issues.

Nah. That's not it. Having had his teenage angst ridiculed, he now thinks that that the right to be entitled to his own opinion includes the right to not have that opinion ridiculed no matter how ridiculous it might be.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: JS80
lol and the troll reveals himself.
How am I trolling? I've said just that since the beginning, that I would happily go if most/everyone else did too. It's an opinion, and it might be a crap one to you and you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is crap, but leave the infantile trolling rubbish out thanks.

Originally posted by: Vic
Anyway, it's amusing that you're trying to blow off my disgust for your outspoken personal desire for the death of every man, woman, and child of the human race as pretentious morality on my part. :p
I'm not just trying to "blow it off," you're entitled to your opinion that my opinion is disgusting. I just don't see why it's such a problem for you.

Isn't there a saying that goes; "I might not like what he says, but I'll defend his right to say it"?

Well, if you're not trolling, i hope you don't go committing mass murder or cause mass suicide. You have serious issues.

Nah. That's not it. Having had his teenage angst ridiculed, he now thinks that that the right to be entitled to his own opinion includes the right to not have that opinion ridiculed no matter how ridiculous it might be.

Ahh, makes sense now. Silly kids these days, seems like they were never taught consequences.
 

Ulfhednar

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Originally posted by: Vic
Nah. That's not it. Having had his teenage angst ridiculed, he now thinks that that the right to be entitled to his own opinion includes the right to not have that opinion ridiculed no matter how ridiculous it might be.
Since you're so uppity about turning this into logical debate, you might want to go and look up ad hominem fallacy.
 

AMDZen

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Originally posted by: Ryan
Current western culture is too self serving - too self centered for the world to reach mass enlightenment.

Mass enlightenment?

Like, hallowed are the Ori Ascension type enlightenment?

Most other cultures are happy the way they are, killing their women for kissing another man or some douche for stealing his neighbors sheep are customs of people who refuse to change. That certainly doesn't inspire any kind of enlightenment. Your own lifestyle is condemned in any country that isn't westernized. Hell you might of even been decapitated.

It isn't our fault just because they say it is. Maybe some things can be blamed on the west, but thats opening up a whole new can of worms.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: Vic
The only way you would not be trolling would be if you could admit that simple logic demands -- in order to support your argument -- that you be willing to go first as well as last. Otherwise, you're just chickensh!t.
I'm not trolling, I assure you, but you have to understand that I never said my opinion was logical in the first place. This isn't debate club, it's ATOT.

Originally posted by: Vic
Quite the opposite. I'm just trying to show you how ridiculous your argument is.
It's not an argument, it's an opinion. I know you don't like it, but I don't know why you feel so threatened by it that you must challenge it at every turn and even try to take it into the realms of "logical debate" when my opinion is not the slightest bit logical.
Who said I was "threatened" by your own opinion? Now, considered that you said you wanted to see all of humanity killed, I'm sure most people would believe that I could be justified in feeling threatened (for obvious reasons), but as you're just some whiner on the internet, it would be stupid to do so. You're really grasping at straws now, aren't you? What I am doing is making an example of you for educational purposes (and personal sadistic amusement, it's true). Your inherent and irrevocable right to hold an opinion does not include the right to not have to defend it if it's idiotic.
 

jhayx7

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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Platypus
I don't believe human nature will EVER work on a 'what's good for us' instead of 'what's good for me' system.. just not possible.
Who is "us" but a collection of "me's"? That is the fallacy in the OP's reasoning. He falsely assumes that the collective operates independent of the indiviudals that comprise it.

Ok this isn't the borg. For us to reach the next step we can't operate independent of each other, that is the problem now. We need to work together twords the greater good, which would benefit all of us in the end but most people are too self-consumed to care.
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Ryan
Current western culture is too self serving - too self centered for the world to reach mass enlightenment.

:laugh:

oh please teach us, enlightened one

Seriously - how can a culture that values rampant individualism ever reach a level where compassion for everyone is possible? Compassion for others and all goes directly against the grain of western culture.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: Vic
Nah. That's not it. Having had his teenage angst ridiculed, he now thinks that that the right to be entitled to his own opinion includes the right to not have that opinion ridiculed no matter how ridiculous it might be.
Since you're so uppity about turning this into logical debate, you might want to go and look up ad hominem fallacy.
Ad hominem only applies if the attack is non-factual or is being used to distract.
 

Ulfhednar

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Originally posted by: Vic
you're just some whiner on the internet
If you want to make an example of me, you might want to try leading by example. On the one hand you try to make a logical debate out of my illogical opinion, and now you resort to ad hominem type logical fallacies. Make your mind up.

Originally posted by: Vic
Ad hominem only applies if the attack is non-factual or is being used to distract.
Let's see, you've called me "chickensh!t" and a "whiner" with "teenaged angst." You can't back up those attacks as fact, so your concession is accepted.

Don't be a hypocrite. I have an opinion you don't like and you feel some need to attack it, get over it.
 

jhayx7

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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: jhayx7
Originally posted by: Zolty
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jhayx7
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Humans are de-evolving. Too many people in the shallow end of the gene pool.

Exactly! It seems like we are de-evolving into a state of "whats best for me" and not "whats best for us" which is being driven by todays popular society.

Actually, I was thinking about it more from a anthropology point of view. My wife has a degree in it, after all, and we discuss it a lot. When the human race started eating so much mess, and less berries, it was the worst decision. And the way that genetic diseases are treated now, keeps them in the gene pool.



You know who else shared your point of view....



the Nazis.

What?!?

Eugenics

Good read. Thanks for the link. Now the puzzle fits together in my mind, it was too early in the morning earlier. :)
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: jhayx7
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Platypus
I don't believe human nature will EVER work on a 'what's good for us' instead of 'what's good for me' system.. just not possible.
Who is "us" but a collection of "me's"? That is the fallacy in the OP's reasoning. He falsely assumes that the collective operates independent of the indiviudals that comprise it.
Ok this isn't the borg. For us to reach the next step we can't operate independent of each other, that is the problem now. We need to work together twords the greater good, which would benefit all of us in the end but most people are too self-consumed to care.
What is this "greater good" which would benefit all of us if it does not benefit at least one of us?
Who's talking about operating independent of each other? Obviously to help one is to help all. What's being exposed here is that some people have ultra-selfish desires for some personal vision of utopia and then try to lie to others (as they have lied to themselves) about their personal opinion being for the "greater good" of all. It's this delusion that leads to the arguments of the "greater good" involving weeding out undesirables (i.e. eugenics) or for all the humanity to be exterminated.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: Vic
you're just some whiner on the internet
If you want to make an example of me, you might want to try leading by example. On the one hand you try to make a logical debate out of my illogical opinion, and now you resort to ad hominem type logical fallacies. Make your mind up.

Originally posted by: Vic
Ad hominem only applies if the attack is non-factual or is being used to distract.
Let's see, you've called me "chickensh!t" and a "whiner" with "teenaged angst." You can't back up those attacks as fact, so your concession is accepted.

Don't be a hypocrite. I have an opinion you don't like and you feel some need to attack it, get over it.

Huh? I backed up every one of those with fact and sound argument. You need to check yourself.

Your "opinion" is that you want every man, woman, and child to die and that you will be able to die happy only after you've gotten to witness that. That's what you're defending. These are your own words.

Wow... just... wow. What people will argue and defend behind the anonymity of the internet never ceases to amaze me, not even after all these years...
 

Ulfhednar

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Originally posted by: Vic
Huh? I backed up every one of those with fact and sound argument. You need to check yourself.

Your "opinion" is that you want every man, woman, and child to die and that you will be able to die happy only after you've gotten to witness that. That's what you're defending. These are your own words.

Wow... just... wow. What people will argue and defend behind the anonymity of the internet never ceases to amaze me, not even after all these years...
You resorted to name-calling, you can't back those up as fact which makes them ad hominem attacks. You're a hypocrite. Try to back out of it now, but you're a hypocrite.

Maybe you should also follow your own advice, and actually read the quote you've put in your signature instead of acting like some kind of thought police.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: Ulfhednar
Originally posted by: Vic
Huh? I backed up every one of those with fact and sound argument. You need to check yourself.

Your "opinion" is that you want every man, woman, and child to die and that you will be able to die happy only after you've gotten to witness that. That's what you're defending. These are your own words.

Wow... just... wow. What people will argue and defend behind the anonymity of the internet never ceases to amaze me, not even after all these years...
You resorted to name-calling, you can't back those up as fact which makes them ad hominem attacks. You're a hypocrite. Try to back out of it now, but you're a hypocrite.

Maybe you should also follow your own advice, and actually read the quote you've put in your signature instead of acting like some kind of thought police.

Exactly where have I tried to force you to do anything?

The rest I backed up soundly. Note that no one here supports you, but several have supported me. That should have been your first clue. You are now officially trolling.