Racism is for primitive minds, dominance is a weakness for the globe & a liability for humanity and fighting/wars-all forms-just cannot be justified today.
@HamdanShehri @streetfytz When the limit is reached, you go. You leave the abusive person. Or you stay and weather it.
Both take courage and are not easy decisions.
The worst decision is the easiest one and that is to be abusive too and hit them back or do what you later regret - be changed by them.
Everyone, not just billionaires.
People accept the inevitability of aging and a slow dramatic end.
The aged accept and embrace death as a get out card (from bodies that were once great but have turned against them).
Therefore, to the majority, it is inconceivable to want to live longer as it translate to a long tail of suffering.
Stated conversely, . . .
1. If you gave all 70- to 100-year olds bodies and mental vitalities of their 20-somethings and 30-somethings (without loss of thier life-long knowledge and skills),
2. If you assured them of zero declines for the following 50 to 100 years, and
3. If you sked them if they still wanted to exit, . . .
Yhooooo! π€£π€£π€£π€£ I am convinced they would choose healthy vibrant life for the next 100 years!
Trust me! 'Strue!
I know!
A great South African statesman said, "It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Reusable rockets.
- Battery electric vehicles leading all vehicle type in every aspect.
- Self driving vehicles.
- Neural nets and vision-only technology for self driving vehicle.
And many more that are not so visible to the ordinary man and woman.
@GigglingGanon The statement, in the last paragraph, "pack up their toys and go home" is mislealeading misinformation. It also falsely proposes that something good was done by 'the journaliat'. Something is amiss here, just bad intentions.
I finished it in one run. Nevetheless, I do go through the same go-down-rabbit-hole reading experience/processed.
It makes reading exciting but time challenging. The reading approach and experience is one of full engagement and being instantly inspired (set off) to imagine, to assess the information, sometimes to challenge statement in short or deep thought experiments, a screenplay starts uncoiling and scripting itself, etc.
Time then flies past a bit faster. π
You are not a 30%! π€ ππΎ Because you have stated a science and research adage, viz. one discovery or answer leads to ten next questions. Findings in research in science are always floowed by new questions, more than the answers they provided. It's progress. There is unlikely an end.
Let me help paint a vivid picture. If you read Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, you will grasp it.
We have trillions of cells in our bodies. They are driven by the one need--to survive, indefinitely.
Every single cell in the male body gets the same message of happiness when a mate is seen. His naked lady is like pure ecstasy itself to each of the cells.
They start singing in unison.
Just like a crowd in a stadium at a peak of excitement, when their team is having their way with the visiting losing team.
You know very well the effect a stadium of fans singing in unison has on the players. Now, . . . that is a crowd of 15,000 or maybe 35,000 or (maximum) 120,000 voices.
Imagine trillions! π€―
Just their beautiful humming will make you smile like an idiot! π€
Exactly what happens to a man seeing his partner like that. He will say yes to any request she makes.
It's the power of trillions of voice in saying one thing in perfect unison. "Life. Life. We live. We live. . . . "
Yes, our cells do not know we are sophisticated entities. This trillion strong crowd of cells behaves the same a single cell - they want life, to live.
Thanks to our higher mental organisation and intellectual evolution - we moderate our behaviour.
I enjoyed so many of the comments around the original simple but provocative post. π€ππΎ We are simple 'creatures' after all. π€£
The Selfish Gene by @RichardDawkins is the most beautiful and elegant writing to explain this. It explains so much of what we see in us and around us - humans and animals alike.