Medisti said:
Those "jokes" take it to an illogical extreme, so it doesn't work. Is race identity actually a thing now? Is species identity next? Nothing would make me happier than to list myself as anything other than human, looking at what the species has done since the beginning of time. |
It's been my opinion for a while now that the only reason humanity is capable of as much bad shit as we are is because we have the intellectual capacity for complexity. That allows us to progress and use tools to carry out bad schemes. It allows us to learn knowledge that could be dangerous to other people or species. But it's all based around our consciousness and intelligence. That's why even when we do dumb bad shit, blaming it on our species and pointing to other animals doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Other species aren't as destructive because they don't have the consciousness to be.
Basically, as fun as it would be to identify and become some unknown alien species that's super smart and super peaceful, your consciousness will always be the price for leaving a smaller footprint of fucked up shit as a species.
