Wouldn't the world be better off without humans?
Humans destroy, abuse, kill, rape.They do not contribute a lot to the world. Wouldn't it be better for other living things and Earth if humankind just didn't exist? Answer this not from a human being's point of view, but more from a general perspective.
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What an intriguing discussion...
our species has destroyed more species of plants and animals in the past ten years than has happened ever before in the existence of humans on this planet. We exploit, often cruelly, those things (alive and not) that share our planet in ways that cannot be changed. We might do good for ourselves, but at the expense not only of other species, but of less powerful members of the human race.
I do not believe that we were "meant to" be here. If so, then botuslism, typhus, cancer, and the HIV virus were meant to be here.
For other living things, it would be better if we had not come along. If, as someone pointed out earlier, the human race might someday save this panet, it would be from some hazard we ourselves created.
For a perspective *beyond* that of the human, i would recommend reading the Xenogenesis Trilogy, also known as Litlith's Brood, by Octavia E. Butler-- the three books are called Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago.
Thanks for asking.
FINALLY someone who thinks like me, I totally agree.
We may have not contributed a lot to the Earth but we have contributed a lot to ourselves. In general perspective, humans are selfish but intellegent.
i see were you are coming from, we as a race take and take and give nothing back. and yes if we weren't here there probably wouldn't be some of the environmental problems that we're having now. but it could also effect the balance of life. every animal has a role in the life cycle and we are animals as well. so i see were you are coming from and do agree to a degree
that is totally true. i agree. i mean humans eat animals and animals dunt deserve that. they have lives too and they might have a family. like cows for an ex. cows get slaughtered so we humans could eat. and they get tourchered.
go veg.--->www.peta2.com<--------.
WE ARE ALL ANIMALS
so true.I agree completely.
so wat r u going to do bout it..or r u doing ur share..? be fair & answer
When you talk about better or worse, you are speaking from a human perspective. Humans are part of Earth's environment, if we weren't meant to be here we wouldn't be here.
Would Earth be different without us, yes. Would it be better, I think not. Who's to say that humans won't be the ones who one day save Earth from destruction by asteroids, solar flare or who knows what? Who's to say humans aren't just a blip on the radar that will soon disappear and Earth will continue on without us?
We're here. Why not deal with that instead of dealing with maybes and might have beens.
Pretty much. Join the church of euthanasia if it suits you to dabble in malthusian philosophy.
How would we know if it would or not? We wouldn't be here.
By the way. not all humans destroy, abuse, kill, and rape. Some love, create, help, teach, share.
Well of course, the answer you're looking for is yes, and with the way you're asking, I think so. But then you have to to question whether or not humans are intended to be on the Earth. We obviously evolved and are here as a creation of mother earth. The question you're asking is loaded. Take out that last sentence from your question and my answer is different. I think the Earth is mostly pointless without us (or any other intelligent life form that would eventually evolve thus following our same path of destruction). Without us, what good would actually come out of life on Earth? Eventually all life would end up being destroyed some way or another (last resort would be our sun losing hydrogen to fuel itself and growing to a red giant) and then what would the billions of years of evolution have to show? Nothing at all. We at least have the chance of surviving when no other species could with our technology.
Human beings have a mind and consciousness. You could argue that people who destroy, abuse, kill and rape are not exercising their consciousness and minds at all. I believe human beings are an important emergent property of the universe - we were given minds and consciousness so that the universe can understand itself, and create art, music, language, math, etc. Unfortunately in the creation of consciousness, there has been a degree of free will given that can be incredibly destructive. but it might all be worth it, we just might not find out that it's all worth it until thousands or millions of years in the future. Human beings are an experiment - there have been ugly nasty side effects in the experiment, but the cure of consciousness for the universe might turn out to be genuine.
Not all people kill destroy and abuse. There are lots of people who do good in the world and they outweigh the majority of people who are bad. Aboriginals in our country took better care of Australia than whites. We can learn from others.
The human race will not last forever. Lets just hope whoever takes over does a better job. Provided of course we leave behind a world that is still inhabitable.
Certainly, the world be rather beautiful without any disturbances/turbulence's....
But there must be some one be left to say that the world is beautiful !!
wow dude! This thought runs through my head a lot. I thought I was alone on this matter but it's good to know that someone feels the same way. Yes the world would be better off with humans from an objective standpoint.
animals kill each other cows pollute the earth, nah I dont think so some how do you h8 being a human or something
I just think the world would be better off without politicians and terrorists,,but then again without politicians there probably wouldn't be any terrorists anyway
Way too many people in the world over 6 billion it makes me sick
poor innocent Animals dying because of savage humans
the Earth is suffering because of us(people)
Destroying, abusing, killing, and raping all exist among other species as well. I'd like to think that most humans have the cognitive resources to understand and honor the idea of morality though.
Take a herd of deer that doesn't have any natural predators in a particular area: they don't realize when their numbers have grown so much that they're eating more than the sustainable yield. Now, you can say they'd have plenty of food if humans hadn't developed that land and killed/driven out their predators, and you'd likely be correct, but humans, on the other hand, have that ability, with science, to think about the future, and predict how long their resources will last. After all, humans everywhere have never truly had predators, and only recently have their practices seemed threatening to the planet.
There's a strong movement these days (and it's worldwide) to save and preserve animal and plant populations everywhere. While this doesn't undo the damage humans have caused, it shows that humans are definitely capable of having the will to be good stewards of the planet. Whether or not the global economy can make room for that movement in the near future remains to be seen, of course. But, it certainly will happen one day, because eventually there won't be a choice, and I'm afraid a lot of barbaric things may happen when there are global shortages.
We have an idea that land untouched by humans is pristine, but honestly, where does that exist anymore? It's only an idea. Humans have lived for tens of thousands of years, and they've been drastically altering landscapes for at least a couple thousand. As terrible as releasing dense carbon to the atmosphere has been, coal and oil provided an incredible relief for the Earth's vegetation, which had previously been used as the primary fuel.
I believe that history will record this century as a great environmental awakening, but it won't come cheap.
We Wouldn't know it anyway.
No. What would the use of earth be if there weren't any humans?
It would be a far better place but then who would digress on what life would be like without them?
We are here for a reason. It's obvious that you haven't picked up on that yet. Good luck to you.
I guess we'd never know.
So how long have you hated the human race?
Would be better off if we had more Humans.
Those qualities above are not of a Humans, but Asuras (demons).
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Answers:
What an intriguing discussion...
our species has destroyed more species of plants and animals in the past ten years than has happened ever before in the existence of humans on this planet. We exploit, often cruelly, those things (alive and not) that share our planet in ways that cannot be changed. We might do good for ourselves, but at the expense not only of other species, but of less powerful members of the human race.
I do not believe that we were "meant to" be here. If so, then botuslism, typhus, cancer, and the HIV virus were meant to be here.
For other living things, it would be better if we had not come along. If, as someone pointed out earlier, the human race might someday save this panet, it would be from some hazard we ourselves created.
For a perspective *beyond* that of the human, i would recommend reading the Xenogenesis Trilogy, also known as Litlith's Brood, by Octavia E. Butler-- the three books are called Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago.
Thanks for asking.
FINALLY someone who thinks like me, I totally agree.
We may have not contributed a lot to the Earth but we have contributed a lot to ourselves. In general perspective, humans are selfish but intellegent.
i see were you are coming from, we as a race take and take and give nothing back. and yes if we weren't here there probably wouldn't be some of the environmental problems that we're having now. but it could also effect the balance of life. every animal has a role in the life cycle and we are animals as well. so i see were you are coming from and do agree to a degree
that is totally true. i agree. i mean humans eat animals and animals dunt deserve that. they have lives too and they might have a family. like cows for an ex. cows get slaughtered so we humans could eat. and they get tourchered.
go veg.--->www.peta2.com<--------.
WE ARE ALL ANIMALS
so true.I agree completely.
so wat r u going to do bout it..or r u doing ur share..? be fair & answer
When you talk about better or worse, you are speaking from a human perspective. Humans are part of Earth's environment, if we weren't meant to be here we wouldn't be here.
Would Earth be different without us, yes. Would it be better, I think not. Who's to say that humans won't be the ones who one day save Earth from destruction by asteroids, solar flare or who knows what? Who's to say humans aren't just a blip on the radar that will soon disappear and Earth will continue on without us?
We're here. Why not deal with that instead of dealing with maybes and might have beens.
Pretty much. Join the church of euthanasia if it suits you to dabble in malthusian philosophy.
How would we know if it would or not? We wouldn't be here.
By the way. not all humans destroy, abuse, kill, and rape. Some love, create, help, teach, share.
Well of course, the answer you're looking for is yes, and with the way you're asking, I think so. But then you have to to question whether or not humans are intended to be on the Earth. We obviously evolved and are here as a creation of mother earth. The question you're asking is loaded. Take out that last sentence from your question and my answer is different. I think the Earth is mostly pointless without us (or any other intelligent life form that would eventually evolve thus following our same path of destruction). Without us, what good would actually come out of life on Earth? Eventually all life would end up being destroyed some way or another (last resort would be our sun losing hydrogen to fuel itself and growing to a red giant) and then what would the billions of years of evolution have to show? Nothing at all. We at least have the chance of surviving when no other species could with our technology.
Human beings have a mind and consciousness. You could argue that people who destroy, abuse, kill and rape are not exercising their consciousness and minds at all. I believe human beings are an important emergent property of the universe - we were given minds and consciousness so that the universe can understand itself, and create art, music, language, math, etc. Unfortunately in the creation of consciousness, there has been a degree of free will given that can be incredibly destructive. but it might all be worth it, we just might not find out that it's all worth it until thousands or millions of years in the future. Human beings are an experiment - there have been ugly nasty side effects in the experiment, but the cure of consciousness for the universe might turn out to be genuine.
Not all people kill destroy and abuse. There are lots of people who do good in the world and they outweigh the majority of people who are bad. Aboriginals in our country took better care of Australia than whites. We can learn from others.
The human race will not last forever. Lets just hope whoever takes over does a better job. Provided of course we leave behind a world that is still inhabitable.
Certainly, the world be rather beautiful without any disturbances/turbulence's....
But there must be some one be left to say that the world is beautiful !!
wow dude! This thought runs through my head a lot. I thought I was alone on this matter but it's good to know that someone feels the same way. Yes the world would be better off with humans from an objective standpoint.
animals kill each other cows pollute the earth, nah I dont think so some how do you h8 being a human or something
I just think the world would be better off without politicians and terrorists,,but then again without politicians there probably wouldn't be any terrorists anyway
Way too many people in the world over 6 billion it makes me sick
poor innocent Animals dying because of savage humans
the Earth is suffering because of us(people)
Destroying, abusing, killing, and raping all exist among other species as well. I'd like to think that most humans have the cognitive resources to understand and honor the idea of morality though.
Take a herd of deer that doesn't have any natural predators in a particular area: they don't realize when their numbers have grown so much that they're eating more than the sustainable yield. Now, you can say they'd have plenty of food if humans hadn't developed that land and killed/driven out their predators, and you'd likely be correct, but humans, on the other hand, have that ability, with science, to think about the future, and predict how long their resources will last. After all, humans everywhere have never truly had predators, and only recently have their practices seemed threatening to the planet.
There's a strong movement these days (and it's worldwide) to save and preserve animal and plant populations everywhere. While this doesn't undo the damage humans have caused, it shows that humans are definitely capable of having the will to be good stewards of the planet. Whether or not the global economy can make room for that movement in the near future remains to be seen, of course. But, it certainly will happen one day, because eventually there won't be a choice, and I'm afraid a lot of barbaric things may happen when there are global shortages.
We have an idea that land untouched by humans is pristine, but honestly, where does that exist anymore? It's only an idea. Humans have lived for tens of thousands of years, and they've been drastically altering landscapes for at least a couple thousand. As terrible as releasing dense carbon to the atmosphere has been, coal and oil provided an incredible relief for the Earth's vegetation, which had previously been used as the primary fuel.
I believe that history will record this century as a great environmental awakening, but it won't come cheap.
We Wouldn't know it anyway.
No. What would the use of earth be if there weren't any humans?
It would be a far better place but then who would digress on what life would be like without them?
We are here for a reason. It's obvious that you haven't picked up on that yet. Good luck to you.
I guess we'd never know.
So how long have you hated the human race?
Would be better off if we had more Humans.
Those qualities above are not of a Humans, but Asuras (demons).
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