[QUOTE="LZ71"][QUOTE="PlexiglassAura"][QUOTE="LZ71"] Why would killing 90% of humanity make the survivors happy again, if you don't mind me asking? a better culture would emerge. With the knowledge that they are the only survivors they will hopefully stop with their petty ways and make something of life. So your solution is to have a mass killing of people to make the others learn how to appreciate life? You know, I really don't want to discuss this. If you honestly believe this, then I don't think there's anything I can say that will change your mind. It's not that I want to kill, it is just that, in my opinion, I think that is the only way that this mundane way of life would disappear.
This isn't a laughing matter. Granted, if you were part of the 10% dead from the virus you will miss #crwe of family and friends. But chances are you wouldn't be alive and the #crwe of family and friends misses you.
I look forward to seeing the world after your virus hits.
LZ71
You may not survive. I may not survive. I just want the remaining people to enjoy life not have life be so mundane Why would killing 90% of humanity make the survivors happy again, if you don't mind me asking? a better culture would emerge. With the knowledge that they are the only survivors they will hopefully stop with their petty ways and make something of life.
Off-Topic, aren't you tired of this stuff? This terrible serf-with-material-compensation life, always going on towards some undefined end, paying taxes, looking for the next insipid fulfillment. What is offered as the way-of-life today... isn't it too mild, too mundane, too ugly? I mean, really... our pleasures are so petty. What we do with our lives is so petty. Our whole society is so damned mediocre and devoid of passion and wonder. And the passion that is there is escapist fantasy, because it's powerless before the crushing, relentless and mundane apparatus of state (and work/school/corporation/employment/broken family structure). I don't have an answer... it just seems awful. I'm disappointed with humanity. I'm sure it could have been more beautiful and grand than this. People laugh at the fantastical Pagan gods and demons and myths of our ancestors today, or: if they like to think themselves superior and scientific: call them stupid. But isn't what we have much more barren? Our ancestors lived in a world populated with those wonderful beings, and their wonder and mystery. What do we have? College degrees and salaries and disposable relationships. Living our lives through manufactured stories (films etc.) distributed on a vast impersonal scale, so that we are just disposable consumers who are irrelevant to the media we fill our lives with watching. Our ancestors actually mattered to each other. They mostly grew up together, staying with one group or a collection of individuals for their whole lives. They lived their own stories, and were the main characters in them. Obviously it wasn't perfect. But I don't see how what we have is any better. We're disposable, irrelevant to the stories we fill our lives with (films etc., again), and, to top that, we don't have the *real* fantasy and beauty that filled our ancestors lives everyday. We killed it in favor of a worthless, barren, and ugly 'enlightened atheism'. It strikes me that the lives of modern humans are so disposable that their best fate would be to be disposed. Perhaps if some enlightened scientist sees the light and nukes or virally eradicates 95% of the world's population, a more beautiful culture will be able to be enforced upon the rest. Perhaps the knowledge that they are the survivors, and almost everybody else had died, will stop them from wasting their life on such mundane and petty pursuits. These anti-illuminati conspiracy theorists don't have a clue. They all seem to think that the eradication of great swathes of humanity's population would be a tragedy. It implies that they have looked over humanity and approved of what they've seen. I don't see how that's possible. I guess I finally have a career path, then... virology. Yes, virology. I will take this into my own hands, and create a virus which affects 90% or so of humans, but not more. That would be a worthwhile use of my life... better than surfing the internet and watching pornography and films and chasing after worthless girls and going to mundane schools and universities without a proper reason to, anyway.
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