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RE: Are our emotions enough of a reason to support the survival of mankind?

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Hiya Sharon

Great article. I haven't read anything this interesting on Steemit in ages! Thank you for tagging me. I'm so glad I didn't miss this.

Rhinos are prettier than certain tribes who will lose their whole heritage due to emigration, foreign influence and forced policies.

That's so true. We pick and choose favourites and wallow in our superiority (and of course the men get to be best of all in this game).

In regards to empathy and humanity sacrificing itself in favour of sheep (and psychopaths), I think this has already begun. We have breatharians and others adopting diets which leave them with deficiencies in favour of the species we eat. We have do-gooders and bleeding hearts embracing the criminally insane. If we continue along this road, some batches of humans, over-intellectualising, eschewing their nature, will devolve (as a result of lacking essential nutrients) or fall prey to the callous individuals they help.

Great article. Loved it.

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Anj x

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Humans are very weird. I think that what I find the strangest is that we pathologically fill the gaps in what we don't know with fantasies. Not only religion but morals and illusions of absolute purposes, emotional treasures kept from ages ago that resurface in the shape of guides. These lead to the different groups of people that pull to different sides wanting to see the world in the way they think is right.

And this, in turn, becomes what you mentioned. Breatharians, defenders of this and that jumping in one leg in a protection ritual for whatever they chose to protect or destroy. And it's all based on thin air. And self-interest, which is, in the absence of certainties, the only certain remnant, is condemned instead.

We could be in the bloopers section of the movie of the universe. :P

Hiya Sharon
Yes, I hear ya. That's the tragedy of it all, seeing the world only through one lens -- polarising and deluding themselves that they, and only they, have the answers or solutions. Weird and scary.

bloopers section of the movie of the universe

So true hahah XD