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Originally Posted by theburningbush  as individuals we certainly make mistakes that are deteramental to our personnel success, however as a species are we truely flawed? We project alot of negative sentiment into wars and the destruction of other species, in my opinion these projections are our dissatisfaction with our inablity to control Nietzch's "inner beast", I am not so sure that these actions make us flawed. What is our berometer, isnt that the problem, we have no other intelligent species upon which to gadge how perfect or imperfect we are. Is the true tragedy that we hold ourselves to a standard that is unrealistic? |
hmmm i just got around to really reading through the last few posts and thought i'd comment on this one. i agree that we as human beings generally hold ourselves to a high standard, perhaps even an unrealistically high standard, but why does that make it wrong? that seems like saying that stupid people should just not study because they're gonna fail anyway. i don't think tragedy is the right word for it, because i don't see trying to improve against all odds as being a bad thing. and i know it's debatable whether we've improved as a species over the years. norse mythology comes to mind - don't you agree it's better to fight the good fight and lose than to just give up? perhaps humanity's unrealistic standard is heroic rather than tragic. just my two cents.