Another way hatred could kill all of mankind

[Conceivia]

If this video is true, it looks like mankind could soon be destroyed. Even if it is not true, however, it shows a clear example of how hatred can easily be our downfall. The video talks about using a virus to remove part of human nature, a part which some theorize makes us part of something bigger (such as being part of mankind). This could make humans care even less for the fate of others than they currently do.

A virus that kills quickly does not endanger us much, because it does not have time to spread. This virus, on the other hand, can spread throughout all of mankind and destroy an extremely important factor in our survival, leaving the human race to die off many years later. That is the most dangerous type of virus of all.

We've all seen how many atheists, and even many religious people, believe they have to control other people's thinking. How people hate muslims. Imagine how to those people, this video could easily be considered a good idea. Such people might actually do such a thing, and likely will do such a thing if we don't do something to stop the hatred.

In this video, the talk is like they are targeting "muslim extremists", but the method of spreading the virus is widespread. They are not talking about giving it strictly to the bad people (which in itself would be already extremely dangerous, because those people would still bread with others). They are talking about spreading it to the general population in a local area, which would then likely spread through out the World.

Tony

 

[Breathe]

This sounds like the premise to a really ****ty zombie flick.

 

[Jumi]

Interesting idea that a vaccination could take out a God? Do you see them as more powerful than your God?

I only watched the intro parts. Many fundamentalist Christians where I live think what they are fighting against is the "spirit realm". Wouldn't they be happy about it?

 

[Laika]

Not 100% sure what to say honestly, I can well imagine that this is real. it is a very simple idea. It sounds like something that could be passed off as science in exploring a fronteir of our knowledge but I doubt it is credible beyond being a research project. Besides Conspiracy theories and media speculation it would probably belong in the realm of pseudo-science. Our understanding of the Brain remains extremely limited. Simply identifying a correlation between religiousity, brain activity and genetic markers does not make it a causal connection, especially one that can be controlled. Nor does it mean that this particular brain activity is only associated with religious extremism and could therefore have implications which are not anticipated. Nor is it necessarily a question of turning 'off' a particular area of the brain as that it another way of saying 'brain damage'. The Consensus amongst the experts is that there is no single route to extremism or terrorism, nor is the psychology understood at all mainly down to limited access to people who are engaged in these activities. This idea appeals however to a kind of popular culture belief that 'extremism' is a pathology, which there is strong evidence this is not true and the the majority of extremists are quite sane with no history of mental illness. Whether Religion can be traced to a genetic or environmental factor (it won't be one or the other) is part of much larger debates surronding nature-nurture.

It reminds me of Zamyatin's book "We" (a Russian Dystopia precussor to 1984 and Brave New World that saturised commmunism's early utopianism) in which the government tries to labotomise the population to eliminate people's emotions so they are completely rational. Trying to find a treatment for 'fundamentalism' may actually be useful but it is not one which is compatable with a liberal view of individual agency and human rights, but ultilately it depends on whether fundamentalism is irrational or is a legitimate response to a specific context such as traumatic experiences and whether we think we have the right to decide what people can become (a position which is by-definition totalitarian). In a way it plays on some Transhumanist ideas of 'human enhancement'. The irony of course is would the people who create it be cured of their willingness to eliminate fundamentalism?

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