And yet another post I decided to write on a certain trend I've seen for a while.
Hating people.
How is this sensible, you might ask? Hating people? Hating humanity - not by race, gender, or any group, mind you, but humanity as a WHOLE. What is the logic behind hating the existence of your very species, and by its inclusion yourself?
Ah, but the people who claim they hate humanity can hate or not hate themselves.
How does that work?
- The answer lies in the word ' people', and not ' persons'. Therefore, they hate what groups of people ( as they perceive) tend to become. This, of course, extends to countries and civilizations in general, and how terrible they believe all of them are.
- But why? Again, the reason is simple. One of these: environmentalism, rape, murder, discrimination, subjugation from one country to another or even within their own country, capitalist greed, communist corruption, so on and so forth. The theory is that groups of people are evil, and sometimes it extends that the base of humanity is evil; that humans as a whole are a vile, terrible race.
- Oh, yes, this is especially from the views of many environmentalists and animal conservationists: Mankind are an evil, terrible race, which corrupts and kills other species, and are single-handedly the worst creatures on Earth. We should, by their ideas, be purged in favor of the rest of the animals in existence.
What about the groups that say so? Are they evil?
- Now, the quick answer is ' No, because they recognise and fight against such evil', but sometimes it becomes ' No, they're also evil, and as such will recommend their own extinction.' How absolutely noble.
Nobility tends to be rather stupid.
Not all of it, of course, but in this case it is in my very opinion. The very idea that you discriminate against your own species
makes you guilty of it anyway. ' This can't be right, I can't discriminate against my race! ' Well, if you kill everyone of your own race, does that make you any less guilty of genocide?
No, it does not. Neither does it make it any better that you as a member of the human race recommend that it be wiped from existence. Are you selfish? Of course not, you gain nothing but an imagined good conscience from it. Are you crazy? Why, yes. Yes, you are.
Let's look at what such haters of humanity tend to compare us to: animals.
We're technically the only race that hates ourselves, at all. This also implies that we're capable of hate, and in groups it can form rather quickly. However, note that the animal species is not us. We are not them. We don't think exactly like them nor do we act exactly like any other species. We are as unique as the rest of the animal kingdom, and we prey on them, like predators. Prolific, intelligent predators, but predators nonetheless, as well as omnivores. Does the animal kingdom, however, segregate? Yes, it does. The reasons can be based on similar context: a separate territory, different shades of fur, a different smell, weakness, illness, the lot. They're not the holy beings of pure virtue that many environmentalists make them to be, and they're not examples that we should strive to be.
What about governments? Are they corrupt? Yes. Are they evil? Not entirely. Do they mess up and do they have senators and politicians being self-serving? Yes, they do. But they also have their reasons for existence. Every society, in the animal or human kingdom, needs groups. Anarchy means complete disorganisation, which often leads to the preservation only of the strong and intelligent. And by that I mean the top few, the elite. Sound familiar? That's right - under anarchy,
you will still have people stealing everything from you, and they no longer have any limits. This can be easily seen in the animal kingdom if you'll notice that the big monkeys take what they want. In our kingdom, they take what they want but are forced into discretion. Governments can be stupid, yes, and we won't always agree with them, but the thing about us is we will never have a full consensus about issues. Ever. This is a consequence of free-will.
And now down to the other evils of society: Discrimination. Rape. Murder. As mentioned above, the animal kingdom practises discrimination. They also practice rape, as can be seen among dolphins, and murder? Murder is simply a neccesity of their lives. Kill someone else's kids, have lunch, move on. Or kill your husband and eat his head for shits and giggles. What about reasons, you say? Humanity does all this crap for no reason. Well, yes, but again, this is a consequence of free-will and intelligence. The more knowledge we are exposed to, the more varied theories our mind can make, and the more reasons there can be to do anything at all.
In addition, such folk are often blind to the fact that humanity is just as easily capable of incredible selflessness. Few animal species are, with exception to mothers, inclined to save someone else's life for purely altruistic reasons, to the extent of self-sacrifice. We can be incredibly selfish, just as we can be incredibly selfless. In fact, selflessness is often countered in our daily lives by
the need for self preservation, which is an instinct natural to us and any living creature. Therefore, selflessness is, in fact, far from the natural world - it is an ability granted to us by our free will, just as much as our desires to mess around, kill people, eat interesting foods, so on and so forth. In short:
Nature advises that you don't give a fuck about anyone else, and it's really our ability to not be hipsters completely following what our instinct says that makes us better people.
Some people quote Albert Einstein and claim he hated people. Fair enough, quoting what should be an intelligent man, but note that he was famous for being a physicist. He wasn't famous for being a humanitarian or a wise philosopher: He was a talented physicist. I don't claim that he was an idiot, but I do claim that if he hated humanity, perhaps he had not the willingness to apply certain qualms of logic to it to realise that the idea itself is, in fact, a hate crime. Not that he really should spend the effort to, anyway, since his field of interest was physics, not political debate. Also note: During his time, he was a Jew fleeing from Nazi Germany. Witnessing that much hatred and death would skew anyone's views on humanity.
To be fairly honest, the human race has turned out how I'd expect a species of complete free will to turn out - varied in all its mannerisms and ideas, with large issues being segregation, confusion, and unique ideas opposing everything that humanity as a whole does. I agree that it needs improvements. I don't agree that we need to be wiped out to make space for more cuddly little predators that will rip other cuddly little animals into shreds as part of the unique ecosystem we call Earth. I love being a human, and a man. And I know enough awesome people that I'm proud of who we are, despite our flaws and differences.
Now if there's any people-haters reading this, shut up and listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiYF7pUPuFs
