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How Expendable Are Humans?

Postby Lanoraie » Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:57 pm

Okay, guys. First, calm the f-ck down, yo. I'm not some psycho narcissistic freak who wants to kill everyone and thinks I'm better than everyone! I've never been good at expressing myself in any form so I apologize for the misunderstanding. Please allow me to explain myself.

Rereading my post, I could've gotten what I wanted with this with a simple "So...what do you guys think about human life and how expendable it is, if at all? And what about basing it in intelligence?"

Clearly, that did not work.

Please disregard the original post because I have inaccurately expressed my thoughts and probably offended a lot of people.

Just an FYI, I have yet to formulate an opinion on the topic. That's why I wanted to create a discussion; to see peoples' ideas on it.
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Postby Ifreann » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:07 pm

Lanoraie wrote:I've been thinking about this topic as of late thanks to frequent run ins with people I can only describe as infuriating pieces of Scheiße who lack any sort of meaningful worth to their character and to society. The terrifying part is these people are the average citizen...

I stopped reading here when I realised that you were going to draw conclusions about 7 billion people based on the few you interact with personally.

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Postby The Orson Empire » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:10 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Lanoraie wrote:I've been thinking about this topic as of late thanks to frequent run ins with people I can only describe as infuriating pieces of Scheiße who lack any sort of meaningful worth to their character and to society. The terrifying part is these people are the average citizen...

I stopped reading here when I realised that you were going to draw conclusions about 7 billion people based on the few you interact with personally.

The OP also seems to be extremely arrogant and narcissistic.

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Postby Transyl » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:12 pm

The Orson Empire wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I stopped reading here when I realised that you were going to draw conclusions about 7 billion people based on the few you interact with personally.

The OP also seems to be extremely arrogant and narcissistic.

I agree, I only read a little of what they said..And immediately stopped and thought to myself 'What is this garbage they're talking about?'.
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Postby Bezkoshtovnya » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:13 pm

So, you want to kill off or otherwise remove a large portion of the human population based on unsubstantiated and very limited anecdotes?
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Postby Transyl » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:14 pm

Bezkoshtovnya wrote:So, you want to kill off or otherwise remove a large portion of the human population based on unsubstantiated and very limited anecdotes?

Basically thats what the Op seems to think..
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:15 pm

The human race is sacred.

We are the the master race.

We are NOT expendable. I repeat. We are NOT expendable.

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Postby Bezkoshtovnya » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:17 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:We are the the master race.

As I am sure thousands of other races claim to be across our rather expansive universe.
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Postby Arglorand » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:24 pm

Humans are not expendable.

Period.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:27 pm

It is idiotic to kill people for not being intelligent, as you can do something with them anyway. It's not even just ethically reprehensible, it's outright stupid as well.
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Postby Alcase » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:27 pm

With 7 billion humans at any God's whim I'd say we're pretty damn expendable pieces of equipment.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:28 pm

Bezkoshtovnya wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:We are the the master race.

As I am sure thousands of other races claim to be across our rather expansive universe.


such as?

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Postby United Marxist Nations » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:28 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Bezkoshtovnya wrote:As I am sure thousands of other races claim to be across our rather expansive universe.


such as?

He's talking about alien species we've not yet discovered, but almost certainly exist.
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Postby Bolnoa » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:29 pm

The ability to adapt is underestimated and it shouldn't be. Nonetheless many other creatures can do the same but as long as we can continue to adapt then we are pretty expendable.
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Postby Constaniana » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:29 pm

My standard would be that the utterly insufferable narcissists with planet-sized egos get tossed into the lion's den.
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Postby Constaniana » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:30 pm

The Orson Empire wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I stopped reading here when I realised that you were going to draw conclusions about 7 billion people based on the few you interact with personally.

The OP also seems to be extremely arrogant and narcissistic.

Understatement of the year there.
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Postby The Orson Empire » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:30 pm

Constaniana wrote:
The Orson Empire wrote:The OP also seems to be extremely arrogant and narcissistic.

Understatement of the year there.

How is this an understatement?

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Postby Hurdegaryp » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:32 pm

The Orson Empire wrote:
Ifreann wrote:I stopped reading here when I realised that you were going to draw conclusions about 7 billion people based on the few you interact with personally.

The OP also seems to be extremely arrogant and narcissistic.

That normally hardly ever happens here in the magical wonderland of NationStates General. Surely the overwhelming majority of people frequenting this place are civilized and modest individuals.
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Postby Constaniana » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:33 pm

The Orson Empire wrote:
Constaniana wrote:Understatement of the year there.

How is this an understatement?

It's a joking way of saying how unbelievably arrogant the OP is.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:35 pm

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Postby The Orson Empire » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:35 pm

Constaniana wrote:
The Orson Empire wrote:How is this an understatement?

It's a joking way of saying how unbelievably arrogant the OP is.

I see.
Hurdegaryp wrote:
The Orson Empire wrote:The OP also seems to be extremely arrogant and narcissistic.

That normally hardly ever happens here in the magical wonderland of NationStates General. Surely the overwhelming majority of people frequenting this place are civilized and modest individuals.

It just seems so blatant, though.

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Postby Bezkoshtovnya » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:35 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Bezkoshtovnya wrote:As I am sure thousands of other races claim to be across our rather expansive universe.


such as?

The Blardonians of course. Once the Blardonian Government has enough money for their space program, they'll come to earth and enslave us all.
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Postby Planita » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:38 pm

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Postby Furry Alairia and Algeria » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:39 pm

Arrogance is your first flaw OP. That makes you excluded of the less than 300 million.
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Postby Imperializt Russia » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:41 pm

My course in Physics of Life this semester basically convinced me that human life is ultimately worthless and that we should not fear cancer.
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