When you come to think of it, they say humans are the only animals to do certain things. A lot of certain things.
http://evolvingthoughts.net/2013/07/humans-are-the-only-animals-that/
You could look at the bolded ideas there.
Have you ever heard someone say that humans are the only species that commit suicide? Something so against the idea of survival instincts.
In contrast to that, you may have heard about how various things we do are controlled and managed by our survival instincts.
"Humans have a natural instinct we have been using for centuries - just drink when you are thirsty."
We feel hungry and it prompts us to eat.
We feel pain and it prompts us to avoid danger.
Poisonous food tastes bad.
Sometimes we forget to realize that we are animals. Animals with the instinct to survive and thrive. Lots of animals have survival cues like these.
But that's the thing. We are the only species with the ability to think beyond our survival cues. We can learn more than what our faulty instincts tell us.
I hear it on The Atheist Experience once as my dad was watching it in the other room. Our instincts can actually be extremely unintuitive.
Things that taste good are bad for us.
Things that taste bad are good for us.
Our bodies reward instant gratification. Extra thought is required to understand long-term planning, and even more habitual training is needed to get one to commit to it.
But we can do it. We can think beyond primal instinct. We can learn to do more than what normal life can.
We can choose to help others. We can choose to hurt others.
And that is mere psychology. Technology and science goes even further.
Not only can we try to condition ourselves, but we are learning ways to engineer ourselves.
We could be the first generation of un-aging humans. But we could also be the final generation of living humans, if a superwar breaks out.
Again, we can choose to help others, and we can choose to hurt others.
I've had this philosophy in mind, but the social structure of our world tends to reward cooperation and friendliness more than it does antagonism or totalitarianism.
The USA is blessed by the fact that it is very hard to live a normal, peaceful life if you actually commit crime. Only suspicious or shady people have to worry about police. As I am a very honest person, I live without any of that sort of stress that drives people into doing even worse thing.
Consider this man. It is inevitable that he will be captured. But why doesn't he give up on trying to run away? There's no way he'll ever be able to get on some airplane or boat. He doesn't give up because he is already desperate from already getting his feet wet in the bloody shores of what he is doing.
A similar effect is shown to happen to criminals in the anime Psycho Pass, in which a person's mental state can be calculated instantly by a scanner gun, similar to a speedometer telling a car's speed. Once a person is calculated as being slightly capable of criminal behavior, and they are made aware of that fact, knowing that criminals are killed in this society, they suddenly become a lot more volatile, a lot more scared, and their "criminal coefficient" gets even worse.
In any case, just being honest is rewarding. Hope and goodness really does triumph. It's shown in history. In US history, we obtained independence and stopped having to do whatever people overseas said. The world defeated the Nazis. Etc.
And from that history, we know these things won't work. From science, innovation, and business, we know that humans do better creating and thinking than we do destroying and wasting.
You could say despair is a stepping stone to hope.
Of course there are still loop holes in what people do, especially when it comes to legal stuff. But hey, maybe it'll naturally be sorted some day if enough people complain and realize these things are being done. For example this:
While this guy seems like he has no hope of seeing righteous justice, one can hope for him. But who knows. Just being honest and hoping for something won't stop the most unfair or horrific things from happening.
Nonetheless, another good example of things naturally solving themselves are things like Youtube drama.
Since June of 2016 I suddenly started seeing a lot of videos about cases of Youtube drama between big name youtubers. Just outta nowhere. Apparently it's become a big enough issue for Youtube itself to make some rules.
But even if they didn't, I think this stuff would naturally solve itself. People don't like drama. youtubers know that drama is negativity. And people creating drama will get called out and outcasted. And it has happened. Once these people are outcasted, they lose whatever karma they had as a youtuber.
Since then, certain people or channels have lost a lot of popularity because the start drama. On the other hand, some channels have apologized and learned from the experience. Yes, social interaction with their communities and other people have made them realize that they can't just be jerks to anyone and get away with it. It comes back to them if they do.
I noticed a lot of this from h3h3 productions, ever since the first video of theirs that I ever saw, and the chain of videos after that.
Just the next day, the internet fights back.
In one of the videos after that, he does his apology saying he doesn't want to make videos to really unjustly demean others now. I think they unlisted it or something. I really forget what video it was. I don't really watch them.
Leafy did a similar thing as well. Maybe it was leafy that did it or something. idkwatlol.
h3h3 also revealed some real problems that need to be taken down.
A while after seeing his video, I saw a video from Cr1tikal, who I'm subbed and watch almost everything from. And he's very against doing much about youtube drama. He posted this while youtube drama was blowing up everywhere:
And he posted this about the CS:GO gambling.
Ever since all of this, I've seen news on the TF2 reddit about how their matchmaking update was one of the worst things to happen in game, which also happened to have the CS:GO gambling fiasco listed there. I'm not sure what the article was. If you know plz tell me.
In any case, the guy behind that has had all his reputation destroyed. I think something similar happened to Keemstar. I don't keep up on this stuff, but apparently he even went into hiding? Idk.
Youtube doesn't need rules for the social behavior of what youtubers do. It's like scamming. After you've been scammed once, you don't get scammed again.
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Whew, from war to youtube drama.
In any case, we are a complex species. Our desire to live supercedes any minority's belief in killing. Our ability to think supercedes our genetic faults.
We control our futures and our happiness.
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You may not have noticed, but the way I worded and formatted this post was a bit influenced by the Danganronpa 3 anime airing near the time of writing.
Haha, it really does spread hope, doesn't it?
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