Quote Originally Posted by trogdor1316 View Post
My personal take on humanity:

Humanity is foolish. The entirety of humanity, when brought together as one, is just as likely to create something miraculously wonderful as it is to destroy all of civilization as we know it. A classic example is that of the Holocaust. Out of the millions upon millions of people who had to know that something horrible was happening, how many actually spoke out? Very few, and those that did were silenced immediately. Sadly, they were not silenced by the top 1% who knew exactly what was going on; no, they were reported by their friends and neighbors, sometimes even their families. One of the most idiotic yet often-encountered problem with humanity is the mob mentality, as described above.

Another example; the atomic bomb. There is not a single well-educated human being that does not realize the sheer destructive power of this weapon; many predict that these weapons will in fact cause the end of the human race. Yet every war-minded individual in the governments of every major global power (and beleive me, there are quite a few of those individuals) has their mind set on acquiring as many nuclear weapons as they possibly can. This seems to be incredibly redundant reasoning. Once again, humanity shows an incredible capacity for death and destruction with little more than the press of a big red button.

The examples of atrocities commited by humanity against humanity sprawl across a list several pages long. So one must pose the question: Should humans truly be free? Or would the freedom, the true, unshackled freedom, of humanity lead to nothing but chaos, death, and anarchy? If those that we elect as our leaders, or at least those that we allow to lead us (in the case of some dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini) commit such atrocities, can we ourselves actually be trusted?
I agree, BUT humanity still is a unique creature, apable to create. In the end we don't create things that is ok, like the Atomic bomb, as you mentioned, but we do create a lot of other things too.
I also agree with your view of "freedom". Are we really free? If we were free we could for example call someone a word they don't like, with NO consequences. For example if we say that Hitler were a good guy, or that we reject the Holocaust, we will be sent directly to jail. We are actually captured. They say we can say whatever we want, but if we call a black person for a (You know what word), are we taken as racist and almost expelled from the society.