Man: Inately evil, or not?

[jk]

I know my existance is part of the problem, i also know that by ending my existance i wont solve the problem. By becoming reclusive and retreating to the woods to wait out hte end of my days i wont end the problem. SOmeone needs to take the place of the Lorax and speak for the trees and the barbaloots in their barbaloot suits until their knoll is knelled and they are ushured from the living. I am sorry but animals are my passion. Humans threaten their exixtance. People that think tigers would make great house pets or that starving chickens is the way to get them to produce more eggs anger me. People are stupid some times. People that get upset when pumas are eating their children because they wanted to move into a place that has long been the home of the mountain lion. Maybe if you werent living in the cats home forcing out the natural prey they wouldnt be eating your slow defenseless children. People never really see things my way, i wouldnt know why. People are always wanting change and new technology which science brings, the latest inovations, but would we not be better off if we regressed? If we were forced to live or die by our own defenses. There would be fewer wars because we'd be too busy trying to survive. There would be less people (i guess according to your views this could be a bad thing). If you oculdnt guess it already im sort of a misanthrope. Collin i know that you value science and human life above all else, or at least that is what ive gathered, but i believe that those are the two things that will kill us all. The growing number of humans that are willing to create technology intent on destroying others that dont see things their way. The only good i see in technology is trying to manipulate it to help our brothers and sisters the animals. To learn veterinary medicine to save those that have been the subject of human foolishness like spilt oil tankers and such. i know that i have been ranting so i will stop now and go hug the tree that gave all it had to the boy that took all the tree had to give.

[Colliohn]

I value all life, not just human life. This isn't to the extant, however, that I won't eat meat. We are, after all, just animals and as such if we need meat to live, then we can do as other animals and eat the meat of animals.
I do see good in certain ill-intended technologies (like the V2 rockets of Germany: they helped to spawn the first rockets capable of carrying people into space, thus starting the space race etc...). I also see how good-intended technologies can be used for ill.
Let's take medical lasers, for instance. They are used as scalpals, others for eye surgery, others for destroying cancer cells. In the wrong hands, however, these benevolent lasers and the technology behind them could be used to harm others. As long as you have people who want to hurt other people, they will have ways to do it.

[joelhaldeman]

good point, i really think there is to much money being spended to try and stop crime. No matter how many rules you put on guns and stuff people will still kill. Their getting ti the point where htye will say "crime is illegal, let outlaw it" you have to change the person if you want to solve an issue. taking away their gun isnt going to change much. theyll coime after ya with a chainsaw

[jk]

oh man, dont even go into death by chainsaws. Texas Chainsaw Massacre worst movie ever!


*shudders, eye twitches, absconds to a corner with favorite stuffed animals and trembles for hours*