Humans are ruled by their natures, not that it is absolutely inevitable… but most never get the hang of choosing otherwise.
War isn’t the problem. War is the solution. The problem is that humans keep breeding faster than they die off.
So, I know it’s been two and a half years, but I do feel the need to mention that this post in which the second half appears to advocate random mass-murder is actually one of the worst things ever.
Birth is murder. Every being be-s at others’ expense, occupying another’s place. Creation is destruction. Even this comic preys upon the attention span, a resource other memes might utilize to propagate themselves, starving those others out one “hiatus” at a time. A positive population growth rate is a declaration of intent to invade, enslave, exterminate all those whom that population would displace to suit itself. War itself is only a logical outgrowth of the initial crime of going forth and multiplying. Thus, yes, a solution to the initial problem. Probably a bad solution but it’s the most popular one.
Among those worst things ever: that you would try to claim moral high ground by virtue of willful ignorance.
The problem with that is that war is not good for breeding. You want food surplus. Food surplus is not typical in wars. Usually the opposite is true.
If all there was to human nature as “make war” we would be nothing more than ape-sized termites. Instead, we create more things and discover things and dream philosophy. Like discuss the peculiarities of a webcomic placed on a planet-wide computing-machine-based information network.
Human nature seems to involve a lot of defying our own ideas about human nature.
Yes, the internet has nothing whatsoever to do with war. Except for the fact that it was originally developed out of a nuclear war countermeasures program. Built from electronic computers that were originally developed to break codes in WW2. But aside from those few unimportant facts, there’s nothing military going on here…
You kinda disproved your own argument, here. This thing, a military design, is now used to show porn and kittens, among other things.
This is what’s so interesting with the human nature, we love finding other uses to things we already have. An insecticide was used on humans during WWII. It was the only invention of a patriotic German that WASN’t supposed to be a weapon for his country. One of those, on the other hand, helped feeding the whole world:
I wonder if Artie has a plan for this contingency? One might think it a given, but sometimes he really doesn’t seem as smart as he’s sold to be, so you can’t be sure.
This probably is his plan. HT is primed to toy with and destroy his quarry no matter what. Artie is shifting his mode from “prey” to “adversary” so that HT expends his time and energy debating him instead of killing and eating him.
You know, I keep thinking to myself; “if we’re inevitably ruled by our natures, then humans are destined to make war and HT is destined to die.”
Seems like a bad philosophy.
Humans are ruled by their natures, not that it is absolutely inevitable… but most never get the hang of choosing otherwise.
War isn’t the problem. War is the solution. The problem is that humans keep breeding faster than they die off.
So, I know it’s been two and a half years, but I do feel the need to mention that this post in which the second half appears to advocate random mass-murder is actually one of the worst things ever.
Birth is murder. Every being be-s at others’ expense, occupying another’s place. Creation is destruction. Even this comic preys upon the attention span, a resource other memes might utilize to propagate themselves, starving those others out one “hiatus” at a time. A positive population growth rate is a declaration of intent to invade, enslave, exterminate all those whom that population would displace to suit itself. War itself is only a logical outgrowth of the initial crime of going forth and multiplying. Thus, yes, a solution to the initial problem. Probably a bad solution but it’s the most popular one.
Among those worst things ever: that you would try to claim moral high ground by virtue of willful ignorance.
That’s a pretty poor villain speech. It’s basically word salad. Did you really put your best effort into this?
Okay, Thanos.
The problem with that is that war is not good for breeding. You want food surplus. Food surplus is not typical in wars. Usually the opposite is true.
If all there was to human nature as “make war” we would be nothing more than ape-sized termites. Instead, we create more things and discover things and dream philosophy. Like discuss the peculiarities of a webcomic placed on a planet-wide computing-machine-based information network.
Human nature seems to involve a lot of defying our own ideas about human nature.
Yes, the internet has nothing whatsoever to do with war. Except for the fact that it was originally developed out of a nuclear war countermeasures program. Built from electronic computers that were originally developed to break codes in WW2. But aside from those few unimportant facts, there’s nothing military going on here…
You kinda disproved your own argument, here. This thing, a military design, is now used to show porn and kittens, among other things.
This is what’s so interesting with the human nature, we love finding other uses to things we already have. An insecticide was used on humans during WWII. It was the only invention of a patriotic German that WASN’t supposed to be a weapon for his country. One of those, on the other hand, helped feeding the whole world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
I wonder if Artie has a plan for this contingency? One might think it a given, but sometimes he really doesn’t seem as smart as he’s sold to be, so you can’t be sure.
No, he’s as smart as people say, it’s just that he’s equally naive.
This probably is his plan. HT is primed to toy with and destroy his quarry no matter what. Artie is shifting his mode from “prey” to “adversary” so that HT expends his time and energy debating him instead of killing and eating him.
One common problem with people who are exceptionally intelligent is that they tend to miss things that are painfully simple.
It’s in a cat’s nature to do whatever the hell it wants