Worst Thing Humans Have Ever Done?

What do you think is the worst things humans have ever done?

[HighlyIllogical]

A few things:
1. Genocide. No other species kills each other like this. Smartest species my ass.
2. Pollution. No other species has such a parasitic relationship with the Earth.
3. Intolerance. No other species hates another group of their species just for being different, even if no one is being harmed.

Good things:
1. Medicine
2. Diplomacy
3. History
4. Economics
5. Mathematics
6. Anthropology
7. Archaeology
8. Language

etc.

[poxpower]

DIS TOPIC LAOLDFSALSOLO

I don't think we've done anything that bad yet. The worst things we probably do is follow orders simply to prevent future backlash.

i.e. Police office obeys police captain, police captain obeys chief of police, chief obeys mayor, mayor obeys governor, governor obeys president.

Millions of people obey a single one, not out of fear of the one at the top, but out of fear of the one directly above them.

But when I think of a better system, I'll let you know :p

[poxpower]

At 6/16/06 02:31 PM, GSgt_Liberal wrote: I want to have sex with animals

Stop comparing humans to other animals. Animals are stupid. THEY CAN'T DO SHIT. Why don't animals pollute? Because they're to stupid to create something to pollute WITH in the first place.

Since I had forgotten to post what i thought I would have to say putting the Saber-Tooth Tigers into extinction... I'm a bit of a cat fanatic.

[The-Hydra-of-Spore]

hmmm stupidest thing ever is war no other species kills it self if its not abot food or teroty but we do it because they believe the wrong thing. p.s to tht guy who said animals r stupid well were stupid to we know were killings ourselves YET we still do it!

[SynapsisB6]

Well 'bad' is just a human/relative term

but torture is kind of sick by allmost any standards. Torture like in the Abu Ghraib prison thingy ^__^ yay4usa

[VigilanteNighthawk]

At 6/16/06 02:55 PM, KemCab wrote: Nuclear weapons.

The time, energy, resources, and money uselessly spent on nukes could have been used to improve our standard our living by pushing funding towards new research.
We could have also pushed space flight- we'd be on Mars by now if we did that/

I have to agree, nukes are probably the worst thing. For the first time in history, human beings can instantly destroy most human life on the planet. Ever since their invention, we have been living with this potential consequence and all of the political troubles it has caused. What is also bad about their initial development was that many of the scientists on the Manahattan project actually believed there was a small possibility that the explosion of an atomic weapon would cause all of the nitrogen in the atmosphere to undergo fusion, effectively destroying all life on the planet. At the time they were afraid the Nazi's would get there first, but considering what they knew at the time it was a large risk to take.

Oh, and I'll bet someone will come along and say, "OMG THE HOLOCAUST 6 MILLION JEWS DIED THERE AND MY GRANDPA WUZ A HOLOCAUSTE SURVIVER" anytime soon now. No offense to Jews, but hey, it happens.

Well, I woudn't be so glib about it. It was bad. At the same time, though, Stalin's purges in the USSR resulted in about 20 million deaths, so they were much worse than the Holocaust.

[Buffalow]

At 6/16/06 02:56 PM, Hydra9 wrote: hmmm stupidest thing ever is war no other species kills it self if its not abot food or teroty but we do it because they believe the wrong thing. p.s to tht guy who said animals r stupid well were stupid to we know were killings ourselves YET we still do it!

Humans, in the plural form, do not create war. It's the fucks who think that they need to go to war to solve problems who create war. The soldier does not make war, the soldier just fights it.

[arz756]

At 6/16/06 02:56 PM, Hydra9 wrote: hmmm stupidest thing ever is war no other species kills it self if its not abot food or teroty but we do it because they believe the wrong thing. p.s to tht guy who said animals r stupid well were stupid to we know were killings ourselves YET we still do it!

Spider Monkeys and Chimps have been known to attack other communities of spidermonkey or chimps.

[The-Hydra-of-Spore]

At 6/16/06 05:17 PM, arz756 wrote:

At 6/16/06 02:56 PM, Hydra9 wrote: hmmm stupidest thing ever is war no other species kills it self if its not abot food or teroty but we do it because they believe the wrong thing. p.s to tht guy who said animals r stupid well were stupid to we know were killings ourselves YET we still do it!

Spider Monkeys and Chimps have been known to attack other communities of spidermonkey or chimps.

oh yh i forgot about them. hmm well usualy thts about teritory but we fight wars because someone doesnt think in the same way

[sdhonda]

2. Pollution. No other species has such a parasitic relationship with the Earth.

Nematodes are the most parasidic thing to exist.....

[Hell-Itself]

At 6/16/06 02:29 PM, Angarfia wrote: What do you think is the worst things humans have ever done?

the Holocaust

[bcdemon]

Worst thing humans have ever done: Think.

Think about it.

[SCG]

Sent all their poor people to kill all the native americans and populate their lands...

Oh yeah and war...

[Peter-II]

At 6/16/06 02:56 PM, Hydra9 wrote: hmmm stupidest thing ever is war no other species kills it self

Wrong.

[x-Toadenalin-x]

At 6/16/06 05:42 PM, sdhonda wrote: Nematodes are the most parasidic thing to exist.....

Arguably not compared to humans - nematodes don't cut down vast swathes of the earth and then burn it, or make other species extinct (It is in the nematode's interest to keep its host alive for as long as possible)

[shyron]

Well I wont mention anything anyone else has, because thats not fun. I would have to say tey are all pretty bad, and as for the Think one, I think (wtf) that we should be able to thinkand not have consequences. Like, being able to say, Omg, 6 x 7 equals 42, but on the other hand being able to know Quantam Physics, Programming, Nuclear Physics, thats too much. We should only be able to think enough so that we are an intelligent species.

Ok, my turn for Worst Thing Ever. It would probably be eating red meat. If we never ate red mate we would not evolve into the extremely intelligent species we are, and therefore not fuck up the planet. However, we were too stupid to know this when we ate red meat at the time, so it was inevitable. And even worse, it is impossible to live a long and fruitful life without eating red meat. So we will continue to evolve and get smarter and smarter, but by the time we are supersmart we will all be dead because of some random thing we did. Maybe too many users on the Interent or something. Massive nuke. I dont know.

Maybe even just existence. But we cant do anything about it now, we should be looking to how to fix those problems we have created. Call me a hypocrite, but we should be fixing these problems instead of whinging about them.

My Two Cents.

Note: 9/11 was pretty bad too.

[The-Hydra-of-Spore]

At 6/16/06 07:50 PM, pretentious_asshat wrote:

At 6/16/06 02:56 PM, Hydra9 wrote: hmmm stupidest thing ever is war no other species kills it self

Wrong.

I know tht now i have changed it if u look at my other mesages so now my belief is: we r the only creatures to kill their own kind for anything but food and teritory or mating.

[Peter-II]

At 6/17/06 06:45 AM, Hydra9 wrote: I know tht now i have changed it if u look at my other mesages so now my belief is: we r the only creatures to kill their own kind for anything but food and teritory or mating.

Some tribes of animals just don't like outsiders.

I'm not kidding.

[user001b]

wrong you are just wrong hydra ... baboons kill because of jelousy or i guess not jealousy maybe it not jealousy but they kill the females babys so they are ready to mate sooner i guess more lust if you want a source go to one of the many peta / vegitarian forms i forget where but i posted the exacts with a source

[Span-home]

built the wheel

[afrodave]

Making the NG BBS.

[sdhonda]

Wolves also kill their young, as do lions. Black widows kill their mate for no reason as well. Red ants have been known to wipe out entire chunks of forest.

[TwO-FaCeD-PaRaNoID]

nailing a jew to two pieces of wood, let him hang for four hours, and laugh at him the whole time until his dies.

[Jayemare]

At 6/17/06 06:33 AM, shyron wrote: Like, being able to say, Omg, 6 x 7 equals 42, but on the other hand being able to know Quantam Physics, Programming, Nuclear Physics, thats too much.

Says the boy sitting in an air-conditioned house typing on a computer talking to people thousands of miles away on the internet...

:We should only be able to think enough so that we are an intelligent species.
Like, OMG, you're barely achieving that one

Ok, my turn for Worst Thing Ever. It would probably be eating red meat. If we never ate red mate we would not evolve into the extremely intelligent species we are,

Evolution is nowhere near proven so....

and therefore not fuck up the planet... Note: 9/11 was pretty bad too.

So what is it: evolving or being created as a species set apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, creating society, languange, mastering the enviroment, creating math, literature, history, harnessing electricity and nuclear power, going to the moon, discovering other galaxies, having wars, genocides, curing disease, building cities, etcetera etcetera

OR

September 11th?

Maybe even just existence. But we cant do anything about it now, we should be looking to how to fix those problems we have created. Call me a hypocrite, but we should be fixing these problems instead of whinging about them.

OMG you just found the solution: we should be fixing problems. It all makes sense now. Thank you for solving the greatest problem in the history of mankind.

[Allam]

worst thing they ever done was existed.

lol

At 6/17/06 08:18 AM, Span-home wrote: built the wheel

How the heck is that bad?

At 6/17/06 10:47 AM, afrodave wrote: Making the NG BBS.

*GASP* The BBS rocks!!!

[sdhonda]

At 6/17/06 11:32 AM, TwO_FaCeD_PaRaNoID wrote: nailing a jew to two pieces of wood, let him hang for four hours, and laugh at him the whole time until his dies.

Theres alot worse than that.

[HighlyIllogical]

At 6/16/06 02:32 PM, -poxpower- wrote:

I don't think we've done anything that bad yet.

Ah, of course! The Gulag, the Holocaust, Unit 731? Not bad, huh?

The worst things we probably do is follow orders simply to prevent future backlash.

i.e. Police office obeys police captain, police captain obeys chief of police, chief obeys mayor, mayor obeys governor, governor obeys president.

This results in problems quite often, yeah. But in general, it's ok, because things like the UCMJ allow soldiers to refuse to follow orders if they're obviously wrong (i.e. "kill that civillian" "no sir.")