Humans are not necessarily bad. Working together in tough times is what made humans evolutionary wise superior and still does. It is power that makes humans bad. And more power even more so. Or how some English Lord put it:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
you almost got it. Power does not corrupt. Power attracts narcissists and psychopaths. Those people have been corrupt before. There are hierarchies all over the place where people higher up have authoritative control over the people (or even other beings) below them and the vast majority of those do not abuse this power hierarchy. Those people that do are mentally ill. It is just the higher you look the more likely you’ll find a mentally deranged narcissist because those are the people that really are into that shit and thus exert the effort to get there. For everybody else it is not worth it.
humans have fought wars for longer than our recorded history, you can’t blame it all on fools seeking concepts of power. hell, we were fighting back when we were still apes swinging from trees.
We can’t seem to break free of those evolutionary ties that we have to out-compete each other. There are lots of great people, but we’re still at that tipping point where some bullshit makes one county chain-reaction genocide another country.
Humans are not necessarily bad. Working together in tough times is what made humans evolutionary wise superior and still does. It is power that makes humans bad. And more power even more so. Or how some English Lord put it:
you almost got it. Power does not corrupt. Power attracts narcissists and psychopaths. Those people have been corrupt before. There are hierarchies all over the place where people higher up have authoritative control over the people (or even other beings) below them and the vast majority of those do not abuse this power hierarchy. Those people that do are mentally ill. It is just the higher you look the more likely you’ll find a mentally deranged narcissist because those are the people that really are into that shit and thus exert the effort to get there. For everybody else it is not worth it.
humans have fought wars for longer than our recorded history, you can’t blame it all on fools seeking concepts of power. hell, we were fighting back when we were still apes swinging from trees.
We can’t seem to break free of those evolutionary ties that we have to out-compete each other. There are lots of great people, but we’re still at that tipping point where some bullshit makes one county chain-reaction genocide another country.