"We're still children, playing with fire."
Nicely put. And yes, probably a lot of this crap would be a bit more tolerable to go through if we had Jimi's magic to help us through.
Ibon is presenting a philosophical position popular in the 18th century, that we are living in 'the best of all possible world's' which Voltaire satirized savagely in such works as
Candide. I'm actually closer to espousing it than one might think, and I certainly don't think all of Voltaire's criticism (and mis-characterizations) of it were fair or convincing. But it fits Ibon's other positions quite well, so it's nice to see it presented so openly.
Soooo, T thinks gunpowder would have been a wonderful boon to the Roman Empire...hmmmm...
Newf takes what might be termed a Taoistic stance. (Has anyone read or seen
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin? It explores similar themes with similar (implied) conclusions.)
vt seems to think that scientists can (or probably would?) solve problems without creating new, possibly worse problems. Not an uncommon view in our culture, but one that many may find...problematic...
sidz suggests stopping that other holocaust before it began.
And besides some hard to follow gaming metaphor (?), H calls for death to all the seek to impinge freedoms. But are all freedoms equally uninfringeable? Are some people's 'freedom' not to serve people who their religiously rationalized prejudice tells them are the devils spawn an infringement on the latters' rights to said basic services?...
All fodder for good discussion.
Thanks all for humoring me in this hypothetical.
I would have steered humans away from developing language in the first place, without which we almost surely would not have been able to organize enough to engineer the un-terraforming of the earth...but then, on the other hand, we wouldn't be able to have these wonderful conversations...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHHsoW6mMghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbdw43yvTY