Why You Don't Care About 99% of Humanity

[Superpredator]

"What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere."

 

[EyeAmEye]

Reasonable arguments, feasible scenario.

Here's another possibility: 99% of humans aren't worth caring about. Maybe not 99%, that may be excessive, but definitely up there somewhere.

 

[nibiyabi]

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Originally Posted by EyeAmEye /img/forum/go_quote.gif Reasonable arguments, feasible scenario. Here's another possibility: 99% of humans aren't worth caring about. Maybe not 99%, that may be excessive, but definitely up there somewhere.

That's his point. Every one of those 99.9999% of people you don't care about is cared about by somebody and you, in turn, are not cared about by 99.9999% of people.

 

[Contrastique]

Nice and interesting read! a Different way to look at things, some things you haven't even thought about and some you have, but when you do you think you're the only one who thinks like that...I liked. Thanx for posting that.

 

[PiccoloNamek]

I use this website to help explain to people why I don't care about starving people in other countries.

I mean... I care on an intellectual level, but I don't actually feel bad for them. This bothers some people, but I can't help how I feel, and I'm certainly not disingenuous to lie and pretend that I do.

 

[EyeAmEye]

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Originally Posted by nibiyabi /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's his point. Every one of those 99.9999% of people you don't care about is cared about by somebody and you, in turn, are not cared about by 99.9999% of people.

You read the same thing I did?

And furthermore, humans are not descendants of monkeys, Darwin was wrong. But that is a conversation for another day...

 

[Superpredator]

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Originally Posted by nibiyabi /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's his point. Every one of those 99.9999% of people you don't care about is cared about by somebody and you, in turn, are not cared about by 99.9999% of people.

Bingo. I enjoyed his thoughts on simplicity as well.

 

[Hoppergrass]

i'm having a hard time giving any credibility to this article. the writer is using his language so flippantly for a serious subject. i'm trying to figure out if he's being serious or just using this format to cram a joke into every paragraph. eventually, i just stopped reading it even though i thought it was interesting. i just find it difficult to read bad writing i guess.

 

[saint.panda]

Skimmed through the article. Taking something trivial and calling it "Monkeysphere" doesn't make it sound ingenious. Ok, so I care more about my friends and family than starving strangers in Africa. Genius. The fact that relationship can be more complex eludes the author.
He's trying to answer some of society's problems only using his Monkeysphere, which in itself is an interesting concept but an oversimplified farce to be used as the premise for his seemingly dissertation on society in general. It is ironic that he urges the reader to be wary of simplicity. The article sells common sense as what the author might consider groundbreaking. The final message is good-hearted but so utterly common sense that I wonder what it has to do with the Monkeysphere at all. And the article is way too longwinded, bad style.

And I believe that "One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic" is a Stalin quote.

 

[PiccoloNamek]

Those who are interested in a more technical explanation can check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

 

[nibiyabi]

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Originally Posted by EyeAmEye /img/forum/go_quote.gif You read the same thing I did? And furthermore, humans are not descendants of monkeys, Darwin was wrong. But that is a conversation for another day...

If you didn't get what I said from the text, you need to take some critical reading classes at your local community college. Quite a claim you're making here as well. Have any evidence to refute the mountains and mountains and mountains of evidence we already have to the contrary?

 

[Hoppergrass]

those mountains of evidence are largely theories with large holes in them. and there is equal amounts of evidence for the other side, they just don't get written about in science magazines and newspapers.

 

[GAD]

I don't care about myself - why should I care about anyone else?

/except my kids...
//and wife...
///ok I care a little...

GAD

 

[nibiyabi]

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Originally Posted by Hoppergrass /img/forum/go_quote.gif those mountains of evidence are largely theories with large holes in them. and there is equal amounts of evidence for the other side, they just don't get written about in science magazines and newspapers.

I'm seriously trying not to burst out laughing while I'm at work. I can see the headlines now. . . . The great Creation Scientists™ EyeAmEye and Hoppergrass refute the Darwinian Theory of evolution! World order restored!

 

[Hoppergrass]

i don't mean that your beliefs aren't valid and i don't mean to offend. i just believe that it isn't the whole story and it isn't etched in stone. and i'm glad i gave you a little laugh at work. don't we all need it.