Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years

Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by plutonorm on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:26PM (#28078336)

Humans deserve to go extinct.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by bilbo0s on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:11PM (#28079029)

We probably will. Obviously we don't always act in the most logical fashion. Long term, that's not a good trait.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by eptcyka on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:22PM (#28079199)

Humans as a species have had the best track record for acting in a logical fashion on earth. Logic has it's limits.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by bilbo0s on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:53AM (#28087187)

Humans as a species have had the best track record for acting in a logical fashion on earth

Which doesn't say much. Most complex organisms on Earth go extinct.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by pvaldes on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:33PM (#28079348)

Nobody thinks that, not even you.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by jobigoud on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:52AM (#28097015)

There is something called the VHEMT, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. (Personally I'm against our extinction but this exists).

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by effingwewt on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:43PM (#28091891)

I very much think that. We are absolutely evil on a macro scale. We destroy ourselves and our planet. If aliens are out there I believe they have their finger on 'the button'.

I believe to think otherwise is hubris.

Could we change? Sure. Will we? Who knows.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by bserge on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:48PM (#28079564)

Tbf, every major conflict the warmongers seem to be dying off.

Just a few hundred years ago people were burned at the stake, impaled, cut open alive in front of a crowd.

Every war kills off the most violent and aggressive. The next big one should wipe a lot of them.

Then again, push someone hard enough and they'll turn against you. Don't even need violence and death, a miserable existence in fear and doubt can be a way better punishment. The sociopathic rich prove it works.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by Inate_Hikkers on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:51PM (#28091371)

All of the neocons will die in the next few years. Replaced by the anti-war Middle Aged and the 9/11 Generation. Assuming this system doesn't collapse in on itself I say that the US will retreat into isolationism, so it would be a good time for some one abroad to make major political moves if it suited him.

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