by Jack » Sun 25 Mar 2007, 17:40:21
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('entropyfails', 'I')f their ideas grow, even the survivors of these endless growth problems will be left with an world of horror far worse than any doom predicted on this site. (i.e. everyone being dead is better than the world they want to make)
I wonder. No, seriously. Keep in mind that a significant number of people embraced their ideas and ideals, even as they came to fruition in Germany.
And then, let's contrast that with Stalin and his calculated mass murders. Or Pol Pot. Or the Japanese from Nanking onward - including vivesection of U.S. POWs. I wonder why Stalin's behavior is so often overlooked. It was just as cruel, just as calculating. But the icon of evil is not communism, but Nazism. Odd, isn't it?
I think, if you take a hard look at it, that humanity's history is filled with such things. They start up, they kill lots of people, they mellow, they fade - and then they become history. While the species survives, that same fluctuation will continue. Most people, given the choice between life under horrific circumstances and death will choose life.
I would ask readers to look carefully within. Given the choice between appearing to embrace the ideology of the (week/month/year/decade/century) and the eradication of the entire species, which would you prefer?
Me, I intend to survive. I'll adapt. I'd bet others will too.