Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ?

[Rev. Rye]

This post might be biased because i am coming out of a conversation that really upset me.

The person i was talking to was saying that what Hitler did, massacring all the Jews, was okay, because they brought it on themselves by acting superior to the German people. The person that said that is college educated, smart, and overall friendly. This caused me to wonder.

Yes, I've heard some similar arguments. "Well, maybe if those Jews didn't poison our wells...."

..is there anyone that has an argument as to why humanity is not really that bad ?

Well, I do tend to lean towards the "Humans are Bastards" edge of the spectrum of idealism and cynicism, if only because, of all the species in the world, ours is the one of the only ones that kills for the sake of killing (as opposed to killing for self-protection, or nourishment), and the only one to have put the existence of the rest of them in jeopardy.

But really, I think that the following words of H.L. Mencken, he was asked why he continued to live in America when he believed that there was, to him, no redeeming features of it, he simply replied "Why do men go to zoos?" This is, to me the secret of living with a humanity no longer worth believing in.