Why is the human race so corrupt?

Why is the human race so corrupt?

Why is it that we're so messed up as a species?

By corruption, I'm talking about everything from terrorism to discrimination to ignorance to even bullying. Why the heck can't we all just take chill pills (:P) and accept one another. After all, we're all human. We are a very homogeneous species. My DNA is over 99% identical to, say, the prime minister of Japan. Your DNA is identical to, say, a farmer in Iowa. I know it sounds weird, but it's true. I really wish the concept of race never came to be as well. We are technically one race, the human race. The concept of race and ethnicity has made the blood of many people boil. Racism is just one issue for humans, but it shouldn't be one to be truthful.

Why can't we accept one another? Why can't we live in peace? Why is everyone a jack***?:P J/K

Does anyone have a good answer?

Because people can think for themselves...thoughts stem from ignorance...thoughts are put into action...

The human mind is very complex..i don't think anyone could come up with a definitive answer..

Certain norms and bullying at an adult age of sorts I suppose. Ignorace too

Yes. I believe the answer is nanomachines.unholymight

Yeah, this thread is over

Maybe because we where made by microsoft. But honestly its becuase of Darwin's theory of evolution, where everything is based on survival of the fittest. We have traits that are required for our species to survive.

Maybe because we where made by microsoft. But honestly its becuase of Darwin's theory of evolution, where everything is based on survival of the fittest. We have traits that are required for our species to survive.

mattisgod01

Darwin's theory of evolution says that over millions of years simple life forms (one celled creatures) slowly evolved into complex life forms (fish), and that one kind of animal evolved into another kind (ape to man).The creation model, on the other hand, says that all life forms were created in six, 24 hour days. If the creation model is wrong and man actually did evolve in small graduations over a long period of time, we should find ample fossil evidence of links in intermediate stages of transition. For decades, evolutionists have searched for fossils of these links to prove the creation model wrong. Although millions of fossils have been unearthed, even evolutionists acknowledge that the links have not been found.

It is a well guarded fact that many evolutionists rejected Darwin's theory of evolution over 20 years ago. Stephen Jay Gould, a professor at Harvard University and one of the foremost authorities on evolution in the world said, "The extreme rarity of transitional forms (missing links) in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontologists,...we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study". Natural History, Vol. 86. Gould is still an evolutionist, he just rejects much of Darwin's theory.

Just what i found on Darwins theory of evolution...

I KNOW! i came here to earth and was like, wtf?? this wasnt on the postcard!auron_16

They advertised lush forests and brilliants blue oceans..not death and violence and corruption...hazy fogged over horizons...:cry:..i want my money back..this airline ticket was not worth it...

Cause they can

Why is the human race so corrupt?

Why is it that we're so messed up as a species?

By corruption, I'm talking about everything from terrorism to discrimination to ignorance to even bullying. Why the heck can't we all just take chill pills (:P) and accept one another. After all, we're all human. We are a very homogeneous species. My DNA is over 99% identical to, say, the prime minister of Japan. Your DNA is identical to, say, a farmer in Iowa. I know it sounds weird, but it's true. I really wish the concept of race never came to be as well. We are technically one race, the human race. The concept of race and ethnicity has made the blood of many people boil. Racism is just one issue for humans, but it shouldn't be one to be truthful.

Why can't we accept one another? Why can't we live in peace? Why is everyone a jack***?:P J/K

Does anyone have a good answer?

gamerguru100

And yet the ants go to war with each other, the lions go to war with each other, and the chimps go to war with each other.

Instead of feeling bad about the fact that we fight each other, you should feel GOOD about the fact that we're civilized enough to feel bad about how we fight each other.

I guess it is because we see ourselves as creatures of free will, we were taught this all our lives, and still the human race can not escape the fact that we are animals, and as all other animals we have the same basic instincts and desires.

Sadly we are also able to think of ways to get to what we desire, morals and ethics are taught by the place we stem from in the world, but they do not replace the basic instrincts, when these collide morals and ethics have a high chance of getting the boot.

Oh on top of that we have to remember genetic imperfections Insanity and personality disorderes, these are usually partly genetical (to say the least). ALOT of people has mental problems, these come in a wide array and are rarely purely negative tho.

Last but not least... Humans are far from as Intelligent as tehy are, If you try to dtudy them, and thier behavior it shows quite fast, the Human mind, is lacking, it can not comprehend alot of "wrongs" it has rarely foresight, Humans are stupid by nature, they really are.

Society has become too complex as well as too stressful. Also, humans are too smart for their own good, we are a self-destructive species.ice_radon

I don't think that humans are inherently self-destructive. But I would see SOME possible merit in the idea that we're "too smart for our own good". More specifically, in the idea that our technological development has so immensely exceeded any changes to US.

Humans have changed very little over the many thousands of years. We're essentially the same as the people who hunted woolly mammoths and wrote on ancient cave walls. But the way we innovate technologically and utilize the stored knowledge of past generations has recently led to an INSANE amount of technological innovation that has drastically changed the way people live. And the result is this kind of disconnect between what we are, and the world in which we have built for ourselves. Many of us still think as if we were living in early history, except that instead of spears and rocks we have AK-47s and atomic bombs.

Luckily we are a highly adaptable species, so we adapted to live as things changed at an insanely fast rate. But adapting to a new environment doesn't really make us different people. I think that today's racist is someone who (in a long gone time) may have been praised by his tribe for mercilessly defending the tribe against outsiders. But the same attitudes that worked thousands of years ago in a small tribal setting may not work so well in a huge society such as the ones we have today. The racist is exercising a totally natural need to hate "the other guy". He simply has just failed to adapt his concept of "the other guy" to fit in with modern society.

Have you ever read David Wong's article about "The Monkeysphere"? Well, I think that a lot of that is going on. We simply were not mentally designed to live in societies consisting of millions of people. Or god forbid, a global society of six billion people. We're still slaves to our biology, and our biology sort of directs us to seek out small groups. Once we have to start dealing with thousands of strangers on a daily basis, we sort of just go a little bit insane. It's just that some people handle this insanity better than others. Some people get stressed out and relieve their stress by shooting people in a videogame, while others dress up in hoods and go out to kill blacks and gays.

Many Other animals fight against animals of their species. We aren't any different. the only difference is we have guns and knives and nukes...

I blame the hamsterjelly.

Yes. I believe the answer is nanomachines.unholymight

Why is the human race so corrupt?

Why is it that we're so messed up as a species?

By corruption, I'm talking about everything from terrorism to discrimination to ignorance to even bullying. Why the heck can't we all just take chill pills (:P) and accept one another. After all, we're all human. We are a very homogeneous species. My DNA is over 99% identical to, say, the prime minister of Japan. Your DNA is identical to, say, a farmer in Iowa. I know it sounds weird, but it's true. I really wish the concept of race never came to be as well. We are technically one race, the human race. The concept of race and ethnicity has made the blood of many people boil. Racism is just one issue for humans, but it shouldn't be one to be truthful.

Why can't we accept one another?Why can't we live in peace? Why is everyone a jack***?:P J/K

Does anyone have a good answer?

gamerguru100

Animals among animals.

I think maybe if we kill all the corrupt people it won't be so corrupt. Maybe..

I think maybe if we kill all the corrupt people it won't be so corrupt. Maybe..

Assassin1349

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[QUOTE="Assassin1349"]

I think maybe if we kill all the corrupt people it won't be so corrupt. Maybe..

GabuEx

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[QUOTE="Assassin1349"]

I think maybe if we kill all the corrupt people it won't be so corrupt. Maybe..

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The human race has always been greedy...people created society to make life easier and organised, but it has just caused more problems. People who live in non-western countries and regions seem to have better values and views towards people.

Were not messed up as a species as the TC said, we are simply acting in our own self interest.

Yes. I believe the answer is nanomachines.unholymight

It is in our nature to destroy ourselves.jesseandnikki

ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!

Urge to kill RISING!!

I absolutely HATE that movie, and I absolutely hate that specific quote in particular.

PLEASE do not ever publicly say that ever again.

ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!

Urge to kill RISING!!

I absolutely HATE that movie, and I absolutely hate that specific quote in particular.

PLEASE do not ever publicly say that ever again.

MrGeezer

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!

Urge to kill RISING!!

I absolutely HATE that movie, and I absolutely hate that specific quote in particular.

PLEASE do not ever publicly say that ever again.

carrot-cake

Oh!

My!

God, Jesus Christ!

It's a water pistol! A FREAKING WATER PISTOL! Yeah, kids like to play "cops and robbers" with water pistols. SO ****ING WHAT? It's a damn WATER PISTOL? To make a grand statement about humanity based on seeing two kids play with water guns is even more stupid than Jack Thompsom's attempts to get rid of videogames on the basis that they are "murder simulators".

**** that. **** that completely.

Secondly, let's look at WHO says this. The Terminator. THE GODDAMN TERMINATOR. This kind of commentary coming from THE FREAKING TERMINATOR makes about as much sense as Adolf Hitler calling you an anti-semite for laughing at one of Jon Stewart's Jew jokes.

Oh my god, I hate that ****ing movie.

"It is in our nature to destroy ourselves"

sums it up nicely.

that, and weed isn't legal. I think if everyone smoked it we'd all be too lazy to act out violently against one another.

P.S. MrGeezer . . . we get it. you're the sole person on the planet who doesn't like Terminator 2 (or anything by James Cameron looking at some of your other posts). but for the love of god, stop shoving that fact down everyones throat at any and every opportunity. it is ANNOYING AS ****.

Because of the money and the power that every one are trying to get it.

and that happens when you go far from your religion and your believes

"It is in our nature to destroy ourselves"

sums it up nicely.

that, and weed isn't legal. I think if everyone smoked it we'd all be too lazy to act out violently against one another.

P.S. MrGeezer . . . we get it. you're the sole person on the planet who doesn't like Terminator 2 (or anything by James Cameron looking at some of your other posts). but for the love of god, stop shoving that fact down everyones throat at any and every opportunity. it is ANNOYING AS ****.

hammerofcrom

No, it's just a dumbass quote, period.

Did you happen to forget that we are a SOCIAL animal? That the very key to our survival is allocating different tasks to different members of society?

It is NOT in our nature to destroy "ourselves". It is in our nature to destroy "THEM", because "THEY" represent a threat to "ourselves".

It's just a very stupid thing to say.

Take a convicted murderer in prison for life, and more often than not, that person is going to identify with HIS prison group while seeing everyone else as the enemy. His protection in a hostile environment depends upon finding a community which is receptive to him. It's NOT a matter of "us vs us", it is a matter of "us vs them".

And this is the same reason why people join gangs, why liberals hate conservatives and vice-versa, and why this particular forum is so often filled with conflicts between the atheists and the theists.

It is ABSOLUTELY not in our nature to "destroy ourselves", it is in our nature to destroy "THOSE GUYS". These are two VERY different things. But destroying "ourselves"? Uh...no. We IDENTIFY with "ourselves", we NEED "ourselves". This is how doomsday cults manage to recruit people: by appealing to a sense of belonging and importance in people's weakest and most vulnerable moments.

Dude, **** Terminator 2. That movie isn't even worth a single thought when it comes to human nature. It's a stupid movie, it's even more of a stupid movie because of the sentiments expressed in it, but those very sentiments are the REALLY stupid thing, since they make even less sense than the movie.

"It's in our nature to destroy ourselves."

Uh...yeah. Is that how we got from eating snails in the woods, to basically dominating the entire planet? Did we reach a global population of almost SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE by "destroying ourselves"?

No. That'd be silly. We SAVE ourselves, and then go and destroy THAT GUY.

It is because that human beings are fueled by ambition and greed, and to reach that goal we disregard others for our own benefit. We chose to have democratic governments because a single person is more prone to corruption while a panel of politicians are still prone to corruption but has a variety of opinions therefor making a more neutral opinion compared to a single ruler.

It's because we're the smartest, most dominant species on the entire planet. When you've got such a stranglehold on the competition, it's easy to get complacent. So now we're just doing crap for the lulz.

I think its power. We humans arn't capable of coping with power. Each and everyone of us can deal with a certain amount of power, but if this power grows bigger then your capabality to deal with it, you will do crazy things. This bar is different for each and everyone of us. Some go crazy after having power over 10 man, some after 100 , some even only after millions, but in the end, power makes a man go nuts. Theres a lot of examples of power making humans do crazy things, just open a history book. Some examples:

Mao Zedong, Russian leaders like Putin and Stalin, Greece/Italian old rulers (nero if I remember correctly), egyptian pharaos, etc etc. And even to this date examples can be found (Adolf Hitler Castro , etc)

There are others who are capable of coping with great amounts of power (Nelson Mandela comes to mind) and although this man has enjoyed great amounts of power, the question is, how much more did he need before losing his mind. (Im not saying he therefore is a bad man, Nelson Mandela is my idol and one of the most incredible man in recent history, im only trying to show that at a certain amount of power people will change)

[QUOTE="hammerofcrom"]

"It is in our nature to destroy ourselves"

sums it up nicely.

that, and weed isn't legal. I think if everyone smoked it we'd all be too lazy to act out violently against one another.

P.S. MrGeezer . . . we get it. you're the sole person on the planet who doesn't like Terminator 2 (or anything by James Cameron looking at some of your other posts). but for the love of god, stop shoving that fact down everyones throat at any and every opportunity. it is ANNOYING AS ****.

MrGeezer

No, it's just a dumbass quote, period.

Did you happen to forget that we are a SOCIAL animal? That the very key to our survival is allocating different tasks to different members of society?

It is NOT in our nature to destroy "ourselves". It is in our nature to destroy "THEM", because "THEY" represent a threat to "ourselves".

It's just a very stupid thing to say.

Take a convicted murderer in prison for life, and more often than not, that person is going to identify with HIS prison group while seeing everyone else as the enemy. His protection in a hostile environment depends upon finding a community which is receptive to him. It's NOT a matter of "us vs us", it is a matter of "us vs them".

And this is the same reason why people join gangs, why liberals hate conservatives and vice-versa, and why this particular forum is so often filled with conflicts between the atheists and the theists.

It is ABSOLUTELY not in our nature to "destroy ourselves", it is in our nature to destroy "THOSE GUYS". These are two VERY different things. But destroying "ourselves"? Uh...no. We IDENTIFY with "ourselves", we NEED "ourselves". This is how doomsday cults manage to recruit people: by appealing to a sense of belonging and importance in people's weakest and most vulnerable moments.

Dude, **** Terminator 2. That movie isn't even worth a single thought when it comes to human nature. It's a stupid movie, it's even more of a stupid movie because of the sentiments expressed in it, but those very sentiments are the REALLY stupid thing, since they make even less sense than the movie.

"It's in our nature to destroy ourselves."

Uh...yeah. Is that how we got from eating snails in the woods, to basically dominating the entire planet? Did we reach a global population of almost SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE by "destroying ourselves"?

No. That'd be silly. We SAVE ourselves, and then go and destroy THAT GUY.

I think it's not that we DESTROY ourselves...we destroy those we deem a threat to our existence...

But saying it's in our nature to destroy OURSELVES..is somewhat misleading..because we don't destroy ourselves....we destroy others...for reasons either good or bad..

Why is the human race so corrupt?

Why is it that we're so messed up as a species?

By corruption, I'm talking about everything from terrorism to discrimination to ignorance to even bullying. Why the heck can't we all just take chill pills (:P) and accept one another. After all, we're all human. We are a very homogeneous species. My DNA is over 99% identical to, say, the prime minister of Japan. Your DNA is identical to, say, a farmer in Iowa. I know it sounds weird, but it's true. I really wish the concept of race never came to be as well. We are technically one race, the human race. The concept of race and ethnicity has made the blood of many people boil. Racism is just one issue for humans, but it shouldn't be one to be truthful.

Why can't we accept one another? Why can't we live in peace? Why is everyone a jack***?:P J/K

Does anyone have a good answer?

There are alot of nice people out there.. human race isnt as messed as you think.

There are alot of nice people out there.. human race isnt as messed as you think.

RiseAgainst12

Society has become too complex as well as too stressful. Also, humans are too smart for their own good, we are a self-destructive species.ice_radon

Maybe because we where made by microsoft. But honestly its becuase of Darwin's theory of evolution, where everything is based on survival of the fittest. We have traits that are required for our species to survive.

mattisgod01