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No, humans don't do better. What you probably mean is you're personally good at applying your own judgement that's arbitrarily based on your own culture and exp

No, humans don't do better. What you probably mean is you're personally good at applying your own judgement that's arbitrarily based on your own culture and experiences regardless of whether that's good or bad. But would you trust all other humans with that task? Isis was composed of humans but they taught schoolchildren to kill people. I grew being read the bible at school and had to hear stories about entrails being spilled on the ground, hands being cut off, and a father attempting to murder his son in a fit of mental illness. Humans told me those stories. These complaints are just parents being parents and hunting for anything to worry about for their children. The anecdotes about being afraid of the dark, crying and violence obviously cannot be attributed to some particular thing they watched. Even scientists can't work out the causes of child behavior with much reliability.

rossdavidh 8y ago
"Isis was composed of humans..." yes, but it was in the news because it was very unusual behavior for humans. Far more nations are _not_ in a civil war right now than are; we don't hear about them. Car wrecks are horrible, but the vast, vast majority of human-driven cars reach their destination safely. We think humans have bad judgement because it's not news when they do things right, which they mostly do.
- lopmotr 8y ago
  Isis was an extreme example, I agree. There are more common ones though. Would you prefer to leave your kid unattended on Youtube or supervised online by a random adult chosen from anywhere in the world? Most of those random adults will include people from countries where attitudes to violence are different. Most of them will have some weird religious belief that will involve involve threats of violence against the child for breaking the arbitrary rules of the religion. Most of them will be homophobic and most of them will be racist. Many of them will support killing members of their enemy groups such as the neighboring country, other religion, other race, criminals, etc. Some will encourage the kid to kill insect pests while others will punish them for doing that. Many of them won't have the patience to talk to the child, which is important for their intellectual development but boring for adults. Many of them will just be bad at caring for children.

rossdavidh 8y ago

"Isis was composed of humans..." yes, but it was in the news because it was very unusual behavior for humans. Far more nations are _not_ in a civil war right now than are; we don't hear about them. Car wrecks are horrible, but the vast, vast majority of human-driven cars reach their destination safely. We think humans have bad judgement because it's not news when they do things right, which they mostly do.

lopmotr 8y ago
Isis was an extreme example, I agree. There are more common ones though. Would you prefer to leave your kid unattended on Youtube or supervised online by a random adult chosen from anywhere in the world? Most of those random adults will include people from countries where attitudes to violence are different. Most of them will have some weird religious belief that will involve involve threats of violence against the child for breaking the arbitrary rules of the religion. Most of them will be homophobic and most of them will be racist. Many of them will support killing members of their enemy groups such as the neighboring country, other religion, other race, criminals, etc. Some will encourage the kid to kill insect pests while others will punish them for doing that. Many of them won't have the patience to talk to the child, which is important for their intellectual development but boring for adults. Many of them will just be bad at caring for children.