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    I noticed... "if you can read this"

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    You're obviously not a nihilist.. A nihilist wouldn't say that human's behaviour is bad. Either you're just trying to make yourself look better than you are (not trying to be rude or anything, everyone does it.. I'm doing it by pretending I know everything about you and people.. I'm just saying you should look at what you're doing before you do/say it..). A nihilist doesn't believe in anything.
    Nothing is right or wrong, it just is what it is (that's what a nihilist believes).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyte9934 View Post
    Ok, I'm not reading through most of these post. Once again, I feel like my lifestyle is being attacked, rather than us debating on the collective human consciousness. I am not asking anyone to look to science and tell us what we should and should not eat. I am not talking about living in trees and huts and etc. The only thing that seperates us from "animals" is imperfection. We humans obviously feel the need to improve apon nature. We create drugs, stimulants and the list goes on and onnn.. We always look to someone else to tell us what is right and wrong to eat. What animal does this? Of course animals have social behaviors, but they don't need to ask what needs to be eaten. Herbivores eat plant foods. Carnivores eat other animals. Frugivores eat fruit. Omnivores eat everything. I wanted to talk about human arrogance, ego etc.
    Ian, if you can read this. I'm very much Nihilistic, you could say.
    Well, afterall this is a runescape forum. :|. But I really loved reading Yakman's post.
    Its an illusion that animals dont effect their environment. I would say humans and other animals are equally imperfect.

    If you want a better explaination, read this book which influenced me alot. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yakman View Post
    Gravity. Give a thought to this, everything we do is natural and maybe not meant to happen. Suppose a bridge collapses due to gravity, should we try to stop this natural process?

    Of course things falling down due to natural gravity is horrible, but nature doesnt think about it or care. Nature just changes. Its because of our emotions that we care about things falling down onto tigers and making them extinct. But a billion years from now, does it mean anything? Doubt it. Does nature care about the avalance, driven by gravity that kills loads of families? No. Does nature care about the tunnels of an ants nest collapsing? No.


    It's gravity, there is no care involved, yes, it's shitty, but what are you gonna do about it?


    Satire Over.

    using evolution as an argument to not stop climate change is like using gravity as an argument to not pick things up off the floor.

    Science in general and evolution in particular is descriptive, not prescriptive. Evolution tells us why we're here, but its not a model to how we should live our lives.


    I personally think that a society where everyone behaved with their genes in mind would be a very nasty society to live in. It would be something like social darwinism or pure unregulated capitalism.

    One more example, evolution made our bodies love the taste of sugar, because where we evolved sugar was hard to get and humans needed it. But with our modern technology we can now easily manufacture sugar, yet if we listen to our evolutionary instinct and eat a lot of sugar, we will become fat and actually shorten our lives.



    Yes we should try to stop climate change.

    Yakman I see what you mean but you misunderstood my point I just tried to put uhm... Biosentrism to a form of a wall of text... EDIT: Googled Biosentrism and it isn't quite the thing I was looking for, what I mean anyway is that man is just an animal amongst other animals...

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