Do you have hope for humanity?

[Lovelife090994]

Do you have hope for humanity? Despite how far gone some things are, despite how many suffer, I know the world has some good in it. I know that Pax Mundana would be near impossible but I have some small hope for humanity. As long as people are there to care and given how it takes something to care I feel the Earth can change. It will take years, but who knows?

[conker0118]

i do have hope for humanity but not for the people that are about 8-12 now. i have to share a taxi almost every day with a 9 and 12 year old. they don't seem to show hope for humanity

[PinkFloyd]

Even though I made the thread "I lost faith in humanity when," I still have hope in it despite all the horrible atrocities that have taken place whether it's the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, or some asshole robbing a 7-Eleven for a couple hundred bucks. Look at this album to see the positives, not the negatives.

http://imgur.com/gallery/m9xGG

[Harry Smith]

Unless humanity wakes up to Global Warming and the threat it poses then we're all going to have to start swimming

[abc983055235235231a]

Humans are fundamentally good

[Hollywood]

There's plenty of good left in the world, despite what many might believe. It's easy to see the entire world in a negative light given all the shit that happens, but I don't think the world is nearly as bad as many people seem to think. Bad things have always happened, and bad people have always done bad things to good people. I think there's plenty of hope left for humanity.

[Lovelife090994]

Humans are fundamentally good

I used to think that. Now I am not so sure.

[Gigablue]

I think the world is better now that it has ever been before, and, at the same time, it will never be as bad in the future as it is right now. We are constantly improving, at a very rapid pace. By most measures, quality of life is improving for most people. Despite the massive problems the world faces, we are moving forward.

Unless we make a colossal mistake, such as starting a nuclear war or destroying the environment enough to make earth uninhabitable, things will continue to get better for many years to come.

[sqishy]

I've put 'neutral' in place of 'yes and no' if that option existed. We have done great things and incredibly bad things, and we're still doing that. So it can go either way, I have faith in certain aspects of humanity but certainly not others.

[Stronk Serb]

The hope is dimming. It's the general stupidity that's going to get us.

[conniption]

We're living in an era where people are living longer and living better, so we've obviously done something right. However, there is certainly a lot more to be done and sometimes it seems as though the human race has hit a wall.

[Cygnus]

For every good we do there are bad things, and for every historical screw up we fix a new one rises, only time will tell if our hopes were in vain or rightfully had.

[Gamma Male]

None whatsoever. We are doomed to extinction, it's only a matter of time. But considering all of the colossal damage and misery we've caused to the environment, to Earths other creatures, and to ourselves maybe that isn't such a bad thing. Maybe Bonobos will evolve into a better species than we ever were. :)
I would like to live long enough to see the shit hit the fan though. Maybe I'll sit back and put on a Slayer album and smoke a joint or two as the world dissolves around me and stupid people run around panicking, rioting, murdering, raping, and showing their true natures in a way they never could before without the threat of imprisonment forcing them to hide behind masks. And I'll just set back in my lawn chair laughing, knowing that the hypocritical apathetic morons brought it all upon themselves with their greed, and their denial, and their blatant hypocrisy and self serving "feel good" facades. Seeing all human civilization on the face of the earth end as we know it would be one of the happiest, most joyful days of my life. The earth would finally be cured, of this walking, talking, thinking virus with shoes and full time jobs. I know it's not our fault we're so god damn horrible, or that well over 95% percent of all people, whether they know it or not, are hypocritical, apathetic, self serving assholes. I'm not saying I'm any better. I'm weak, I'm human, just like everyone else. All I'm saying that a collapse of human civilization would be the best thing to ever happen to this planet., and to other animals. If pigs or cows had religion we would be the devil. If aliens who had grew up in an environment where all living things were herbivores, and they never had to kill for food and they saw earth and observed Earth and observed Darwinian evolution in action, and saw our slaughterhouses and factory farms and deathcamps, they would be absolutely fucking disgusted, and horrified. They would think that the system that we have here on earth is just the most sick, twisted, evil, horrible thing they've ever seen. Animals have to kill other animals in order to not die themselves. Mother have to kill other mothers, and kill babies, just so there own babies don't die themselves. Nature is the most screwed up, evil system that could possibly be. It's just one big competition where the winner gets to live for another few years and make more players, and the loser and all of his or her children die. But humans? We don't even need to kill to survive, but be do anyway. We murder over 100 billion sentient, living, breathing, feeling beings every year for no other reason than because they tasye good. The sooner humans die off and make room for a better species to evolve, the better.

[Chrisscotland]

I think if all the mistakes humans have made didn't happen then we wouldn't notice when something amazing happens, we have to make mistakes to realise we can do things differently, but it seems now there are more tragic things happening that people don't believe we can work together and help each other, we are too caught up in our own lives to notice anything else.

[Miserabilia]

I picked hope because it all depends on your definition of humanity.

I have hope that socially we will get better and better, spreading out wealth and health so everyone can live happy; that's my hope.
I have hope that technology will help us and make the world a better place, and that technology will allow us to do amazing things.
I am neutral on hope for humanity on earth; whether or not we will destroy our home is debatable, so I'm not sure.