Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Humanity's self loathing

  • 19-02-2016 4:09pm
    #1
    0byme75341jo28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,571 ✭✭✭


    Why do we, as a people, seen to be so fond of self loathing? Spend five minutes on any social media site and you'll find numerous examples of people calling humanity "selfish", "destructive" and "evil", why do so many people love focusing on the negatives? As a people we've advanced hugely in the past few hundred years, society is far more altruistic now than it was then, so why do so many people think we're slowly degenerating into aggressive animals who are doomed to destroy ourselves before the end of the century? I don't get it, people in general aren't bad, not more so than any other animals.. Thoughts?


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The actions of this and recent previous generations of humans have reduced the planets capacity to support human life, to the extent that if human behaviours don't change drastically within the next two generations, that the human race will not longer exist on Earth. The consumer preferences of humans lucky enough to live in the developed world often foster exploitation and deprivation for those in the poorest countries.

    It's pretty selfish and destructive to wipe out the world for future generations, or to buy chocolate that uses the labour of child slaves to harvest the cocoa, as an example. I think that's what most of that sort of self-criticism refers to, our actions as a species and not as individuals.


  • #3
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    "Holy mother of lantern divine mother a Jaysus di poor creatures we're leaving behind."
    "What?"
    "Someone parked in the Parent and Child spaces with no kids. WHAT'S BECOMING OF US!? What's happening to HUMANITY!?"


  • #4
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    As great as a lot of stuff we have here in the developed world is, a lot of it comes at a price that we choose to ignore.


  • #5
    DareGod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭DareGod


    Patrick Yellow Sidebar wrote: »
    Why do we, as a people, seen to be so fond of self loathing? Spend five minutes on any social media site and you'll find numerous examples of people calling humanity "selfish", "destructive" and "evil", why do so many people love focusing on the negatives? As a people we've advanced hugely in the past few hundred years, society is far more altruistic now than it was then, so why do so many people think we're slowly degenerating into aggressive animals who are doomed to destroy ourselves before the end of the century? I don't get it, people in general aren't bad, not more so than any other animals.. Thoughts?

    Because if we don't focus on them, they won't get fixed.


  • #6
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Get It Together Lads wrote: »
    Like anyone in the developed world is going to give up their laptops and starbucks.
    Laptops in Starbucks at a window seat - the saddest people.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Lights On
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭Lights On


    diomed wrote: »
    Laptops in Starbucks at a window seat - the saddest people.

    No better place for a ****. And you get a fresh double chocolate chip frappuccino when you're done :)


  • #8
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    I don't like coffee so I don't drink Starbucks. I instantly feel like a great fella altogether now after reading this thread.

    I hate shopping for clothes because it's so boring but I now find I can look like an enlightened being by saying I don't do it because of all the child slaves labouring away in sweat shops.


  • #9
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    What's this "we" business?? The white man's created a system where even po' muthafukkas be fat.


  • #10
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Candie wrote: »
    The actions of this and recent previous generations of humans have reduced the planets capacity to support human life, to the extent that if human behaviours don't change drastically within the next two generations, that the human race will not longer exist on Earth. The consumer preferences of humans lucky enough to live in the developed world often foster exploitation and deprivation for those in the poorest countries.

    It's pretty selfish and destructive to wipe out the world for future generations, or to buy chocolate that uses the labour of child slaves to harvest the cocoa, as an example. I think that's what most of that sort of self-criticism refers to, our actions as a species and not as individuals.

    Well, I agree with this. Much of the unnecessary crap Western society chooses to bore itself with comes at disproportionate, ridiculous cost.


Advertisement