Suicide

[bennyboy]

I don't see a species that's doing better, I see the same creatures that watched their neighbors burning at the stake as a regular form of entertainment. The same creature, just cleaner for the time being.

You take the bad of individuals or groups of individuals, and generalize it to the whole.  This is a fallacy-- the human species didn't watch their neighbors burning at the stake-- that was a collection of individual people.

People are capable of great good or great harm. . . and this is so because we are the ones who define those terms.  If there was nothing but burning and war, then it would be neither good nor evil-- it would be what we are.  We'd have no concept of good if we weren't capable of it, and of experiencing and appreciating it.

Your problem is that you are choosing to view humanity, the world and yourself through grey glasses, and then claiming that everying is grey.  For people in this state, it's hard for them to see that they are doing it by choice. But it is a choice-- you are as free to change your perspective as you are to press that "delete" key and type a different message.