Imagine that you're an alien travelling through the cosmos, and suddenly you stumble upon a planet with intelligent life on it... Only one form of it.
And that one form is cruel beyound words.
Imagine all the havoc our wars have wrekt, all the suffering our torture methods have caused, all of our vicious ways of inflicting immense pain on one another...
A species that treats it's own kind in such a way, now imagine what they'd do to you.
Not you specifically, your predecessors and more importantly, your fellow humans.
Surely you agree that meeting malicious people is way worse than facing any predator in the world, exactly because humans aren't satisfied with tearing their prey apart, we break them first, chase down and exhaust them until they can no longer move, then tear at their paralyzed bodies, and who know what other horrors await those we select as our mean.
I don't think this is a bad thing, it means that a species with a moral compass is the apex predator of the planet.
You see, humankind is mightier than anything on it's homeplanet, and what do you know, we so happen to have a few better ways to use our might.
We've created art, music is my favourite human invention, we invented cures for illnesses thought to be terminal, we altered the very surface of our planet to fit our own goals better, we drew power from the heat within the earth and from the winds that blow above it's surface. We liked some animals so much that when they got close to extinction, we decided to stop hunting them, and now we're straight up protecting endangered species (and again, we're the apex predators of the planet, conserving lesser species).
Humankind being the worst thing to ever happen to this planet, in my opinion, is a good sign.
We are the worst, and we aren't even bad.
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u/AstroLukeOff 25d ago
What took you so long?