A certain amount of ruthlessness was certainly needed for us to survive - it’s a harsh, unforgiving world. Turns out it’s a hard habit to break.
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pigslop@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Our willingness and ability to destroy is the trait that has powered our rise. After all, if our ancestors never chose to destroy wood to make fire, or destroy stone to extract minerals, none of what came after would be possible.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 2 months ago
The fuck are you on? “Destroy” stone? There is a vast gulf of difference between altering something, including in creative and constructive ways, and “destruction.” Most of us know the difference today and our ancestors certainly knew the difference. Human labor is in general a constructive force even if it can be used to destructive ends. Saying that “our willingness to destroy is the trait that powered our rise” is ahistorical nonsense and anti-human drivel. But it sounds an awful lot like the lying justifications the small subset of the current ruling class likes to use as an excuse and justification to exploit us and actually destroy our environment for the sake of their own narrow profit and greed. But that’s no more of a universal human trait than any other disgusting pathology that a select few are afflicted with.