RE: Advance to help Humanity
August 13, 2015 at 3:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2015 at 3:51 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(August 13, 2015 at 3:44 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 13, 2015 at 3:30 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: You can't both be nice and reasonable/intelligent. I guess it depends on how you define those things, though. I'm only being practical here. You're not really nice if you're smart enough to observe the defects in everyone and judge them for it too, are you? In that instance, sure you're not. You can pretend to be nice, which is what we all do, but you're not really ever nice. All you'll ever be is catering to your own needs. Nice doesn't come into it. Nice doesn't even make sense, if you think about it. But then, a lot of things don't. Language is a castle of sand.
I think you have a very strange idea of what it is to be "nice." When I have a guest in my house, I offer the person something to drink, and, usually, something to eat. Doing such things is nice. And doing such things does not entail believing my guests are perfect.
In my experience, I have found that stupidity is more often linked to cruelty than intelligence is.
We weren't talking about cruelty though. Let's not jump to extremes so fast. We were merely talking about being nice. I don't see though why you see this as such an important quality that it would be one of the only three you would chose everyone to have enhanced through the means of a virus.
If I were to rephrase your own wish I would put it like this:
I wish there was a virus that would make everyone rational, compassionate and responsible for themselves and their societies both in the present and the future.
