Why bother? Seriously. Could someone PLEASE explain...

[xenobard]

Will someone please explain to me what it is about the human race that is worth our efforts in trying to save it?

[HopeForHumanity]

It is clear that the human race can do things that no other animal on this planet can do. It is like a gift, but it is our choice to use it or destroy it. Scientist say that the probability that a species such as ours coming into existance is extreme. Why not use our gifts to drive ourselves to become better through non physical evolution? When will we become one of the view species to ever colonize another planet? That fact that a human can question is what makes us so unique.

[ring_theory]

Will someone please explain to me what it is about the human race that is worth our efforts in trying to save it?

Who's trying to save the human race? It's quite obvious that there have been bad times in your life and from the state of the world today it seems that there is no hope for humanity (no pun intended hope for humanity). I'll tell you i've been trampled on by society had everything that meant anything to me taken. Many rights trampled on and my freedoms threatend for defending my ammendment rights.

I wake up every morning and ask myself this question, Is mankind worthy of what i have to offer? The answer is allways NO. But at some point during every day I see good in people, i see good deeds done. I see people helping eachother without monitary gain. Usually by the time i lay down to sleep i question my answer of NO.

There is good and bad in everyone! Choose what you want to dwell on.

[bitRAKE]

Don't save the world - live as part of it. Which is ment in a similar vain as the saying of Mahatma Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see."

When I was beat down by the world around me it became very easy to respond with hate and contempt. Just letting those emotions take over preserved ("saved") the environment which lead to those emotions. Talk about a perpetual motion machine! It is a struggle when the wounds are fresh or the scars a constant reminder.

If you want the human race to be other than you see it - be that change and the world will follow. Not to say the human race won't end, but to do nothing is to let others choose for you.

[xenobard]

Yawn.  Not convinced.  Sorry.  I've been abused by teachers, pinned down and strapped to a dentist's chair and had teeth pulled, beaten and permanently maimed by a bullies, beaten by parents, uprooted and moved to a different city 5 times, operated on, come to be addicted to drugs, and even had a gun held to my head by a gangster, all before I was 16.

Then, I escaped to college and university, got qualified to obtain work visas to teach English to stupid rich people in foreign countries so I could go and see what it was like other countries.  I realized it was worse everywhere. 

What irony!  The world is so f****d up that it has ended up conspiring against the very creative geniuses that could in fact actually come up with the solutions that would actually save the world.

LOL

What irony indeed.

Does anyone else see the irony?

LOL

I'm having a great time laughing at this irony.

Of course, I have no desire whatsoever to lift any sort of proverbial finger to help humanity.

In fact, humanity should be glad that I am, in fact, such a nice person as to not seek revenge.  Humanity should be happy with me for that.

I will be glad to sit back and watch humanity spiral down around the proverbial drain, unless someone comes up with a better argument than "there is a little bit of something worth saving in everybody".