Humans are the most perfect biological being that I've ever encountered. We can survive in almost any type of climate, we can communicate with one another to give each other ideas, we can solve a problem by using rational thinking and compare possible outcomes. No other biological being can do all of these as well as us. (Bacteria, Protists and viruses don't count, they can survive pretty much anywhere
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The problem is that we are a very young species. Homo Sapiens started hanging around what; 250,000 years ago according to Wikipedia, which is pretty damn recent. We were the same way, nomads hunting for food, until about 10,000 BC. We were very small societies back then. Then we started creating more and more and by 3000 BC we finally had large functional societies. The Greeks started building upon this and later the Romans. Eventually we've been closer and closer to a global society that is the same all around.
So what, we can say we've had about 12,000 years of actual progress of the evolution of society. I think we've done a pretty damn good job considering that we can communicate with people around the world instantly, we can physically travel to any spot on the planet in a day. Most of us live quite healthy and comfortable lives. Sure, some live better than others and wouldn't it be great to live in a perfect communist state? I know I'd like it but there is one big problem that our comrades in the Soviet Union couldn't solve. That is how do we go from a capitalist state to a socialist state and then to perfect communism? Yeah, pretty much almost nobody has a clue on how to reach that last step.
I'll bet that everyone that says humanity is failure bases the assumption that there are others that live in poverty. Recently I spent a week on vacation in Palm Beach, FL, one of the richest places to live. I didn't want to leave because the quality of living there is insanely high. I learned a lot too. Some people may live lavish lives, and others in what we consider poverty. Where I live, in Puerto Rico, we have public residential all over the place. I see them all the time and know several people who live in such places. Drugs, theft, rape and murder are all over the place. Yet we can see most people live happy lives. All because it is human nature to help themselves as a whole. Everything we do is for the good of the individual and of society.
Right now, it is impossible for everyone to live the lavish lives of the wealthy. Somebody has to work their ass to become an engineer. Somebody has to pick the garbage. Somebody has to study for a decade in order to open your heart and save your life. Somebody has to feed them cows you will drink milk from and later eat as a steak. Will you do this? Will everybody do this? I'd like to see someone who doesn't like humanity try and improve it as a whole. Nope, usually it's the ones who do like it who try to improve it.
Humanity is awesome. If it wasn't for our ways we'd still be hunting with sticks & stones hoping to get a kill and eat it.
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