I dunno what your talking about, Cruz is hilarious.

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Hey I believe in the idea that people sacrificing themselves to save their children or soldiers throwing themselves on grenades to save their comrades are simply an extension of the idea of fingers and toes being sacrificed by the body in hypothermia. The human race is as much an organism as the human body which is as much an organism as a cell with its organelles.

But in that world aren't the disposable humans still necessary as cogs in the machine to do tasks? Are we talking about social Darwinism or something even more bizarre?

Maybe. But if so probably with a much stronger predisposition toward it. Like there’s no incentive that would inspire a worker ant to get another job.

AI plus genetic engineering = something even more bizarre

(or just plain old-fashioned evolution being the weird creepy bastard that it already is still being something unimaginably bizarre)

So essentially the cog humans becoming another species in the same way that worker ants are different from soldier ants are different from queens? Whether or not physically but psychologically to an extent that the workers would never think to become queens because workers are incapable of being queens and queen are incapable of becoming workers? The different species with the same DNA simply are too different to contemplate being a "whole" species?

I think you're clinging to a capital because you have no opinions of your own.

It's weird for someone who supposedly comes from a poor background to show a complete lack of understanding for the working class while working hard to become a middle class lawyer whereas a middle class prick who's dropped himself into the working class simply because he's too lazy to try gets the former's people better for seemingly no apparent reason.

Maybe you're just a wannabe bourgeois dickhead or something I don't know.

In photos: Staggering destruction from Indonesia quake, tsunami

Before and after photos of villages demolished by landslides. ~1200 dead and expected to rise significantly

I agree with this so much.

Well, I kinda have two political philosophies which compete for my mind. I got the side that wants to believe in something that's the socialist side and sides with the working class and hopes that education on civics might actually make a difference. This I side with to preserve my sanity basically.

Then in my heart of hearts I believe nothing particularly good about humanity besides our propensity for being good with tools. I think humans are cretins who aren't far enough from a history of swinging from trees and flinging their poo to be trusted with running a global civilization of 7 billion people.

I can't truly commit to either philosophy because I can't be nihilistic enough to commit to the latter because it's an "existential dead end" (to quote OH) and I can't be bright and shiny enough to believe in the former. I get the feeling that this isn't at all an uncommon approach tbh but most people feel the need to side with optimism.

Most people vote on the illusion of self interest.