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> I think that humans are meant to accept that they cannot and should not be able to obtain massive amounts of control over world-scale events for prolonged amo
by rwallace 13y ago
> I think that humans are meant to accept that they cannot and should not be able to obtain massive amounts of control over world-scale events for prolonged amount of time.
Yes, that's why we require political leaders to step down from office eventually. But the civilized way of requiring leaders to step down from office does not involve killing them.
> What you are suggesting seems like breaking nature's cycle to me.
Damn right. So was the eradication of smallpox. Nature contains many cycles that are utterly abhorrent.
- blumkvist 13y ago>Yes, that's why we require political leaders to step down from office eventually. But the civilized way of requiring leaders to step down from office does not involve killing them. I'm talking more in line of philosophical movements. Political leaders are not that important (although it sure seems that way to us). In my opinion, we as a species, need to have that failsafe of time perspective on ideologies. We risk lurching in a wrong direction with no possibility of coming back on track otherwise. No single generation should decide to faith of humanity as a whole.