46
submitted 1 year ago by sylowosa@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If mankind started out without any negative traits that like greed, ego, anger etc., how would it shape our civilization up to this date? Would we have created the perfect utopia or made ourselves extinct long ago? Are our flaws holding us down or are they the reason our society made it to this point?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

Flaws are just variation. Variation begets adaptation. Adaptation begets survival of the species. Without flaws, evolution wouldn't exist and life wouldn't exist.

And if somehow we overcame all these "flaws" everything would be so incredibly boring.

[-] excel@lemmy.megumin.org 1 points 1 year ago

And one of those flaws is thinking that the world needs to be full of shitty people just so it’s not “boring”

this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
46 points (89.7% liked)

Asklemmy

43399 readers
739 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS