Why do people view the world as flawed?
I can’t speak for everyone so I will speak for myself. Why do I view the world as flawed?Too much money in one hands, starvations around the world while restaurants and homes toss food that they do not want. People dying because they can’t afford medical, people being killed because of the color of their skin, people denied jobs because of the color of their skin. People bullied because of how they look. People look down on because of their status in life. People denied entry to a country because of where they are from. People encourage others to hate those less fortunate than they are.The list could go on but I am sure you do get the pictured. Like one person said, people are flawed. Like Lou Rawls sang, “What’s the matter with the world has the world gone mad? Nothing’s wrong with the world, it’s just the people that’s in it.”People are a cancer to society, we infest it with hate and everything that is bad.This Is America's Most Expensive Thanksgiving DinnerWorld Hunger, Poverty Facts, Statistics 2016 - World Hunger NewsIowa mom gets 3 life sentences in girl's starvation deathFinding relief from the rising tide of income inequalityWhy The U.S., One Of The World's Richest Countries, Struggles With Diseases Of Poverty
Why are some people so cruel and spiteful?
They drink ALLOT of hateraide
Why do people bully/make fun of others?
I am one of those people that when others pick on other people, it makes me sad. Im someone who loves doing community service and hates it when people are mad at me. I want to major in Psycology and last night, I found this song by Superchick. Why do people bully others? I mean, that just shows their own insecurity, right? Anyways, it just bothers me. One of my friends is one of the people that is picked on brutally everyday at schoool. I mean, he's annoying, but he needed a friend, and we help eachother out sometimes. I dont care if it hurts my social status, i mean, im not like one of the popular people, but im not a loser either...im in da middle.Why can't others just stand up for what is right? Anyways, i was just curious! thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3PBGEGjrk&feature=related
One of democracy's biggest flaws is that it allows 49% of the people to be dominated by the remaining 51%. How should this problem be corrected?
On of the problem of democracy is that it allows 27% of the voters to dominate the other 28% of voters that voted while 45% stayed home and did not vote. Hence Trump.Shame on the American voters who were duped by Russian fake news or Trump’s own false claims to vote for Trump or to stay home what ever their reasons. Trump is an emblematic problem of democracy. The ill informed ill educated status of the American populace is all of our problem. It is an educational problem to be corrected in first grade when kindergartners can not tell the difference between the truth and false claims and lies. It is a national problem when adults exhibit this same difficulty, it is all of our problem that we have allowed our education system to degenerate to this level.This is compounded by GOP efforts to suppress minority votes, women's votes, and the votes of the work poor. Trump and the GOP are so high on winning that they are willing to sabotage the nation and the truth for their own agenda. The GOP’s election strategy has become voter suppression and disinformation, they are no longer trying to persuade citizens to vote for the GOP with strong persuasive information about the policies and platform of the GOP. We have become a kleptocracy indistinguishable from developing nations stalled on their growth path.Yes a 27% kleptocracy is a problem.Education is needed to promote voting and to promote the basic understanding of truth versus lies as well as distinguishing credible sources and logical versus fallacious illogical arguments.What percentage of Americans didn't vote?The early data found that of the U.S. population:46.6% didn't vote25.6% voted for Hillary Clinton25.5% voted for Donald Trump1.7% voted for Gary JohnsonNearly half of eligible voters (231,556,622 people) did not vote in the 2016 presidential electionPresidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins65,853,625 votes (48.0%) Hillary Clinton62,985,106 votes (45.9%) Donald J. Trump2016g - United States Elections Project and their spreadsheet 2016 November General ElectionAbout 136,700,729 voted for President of 250,055,734 the Voting-Age Population or 54.7%, meaning that 45.2% did not vote. If you look at the Voting Eligible Population 59.3% voted for President or 40.7% did not vote.
Why do I hate people who remind me of myself?
Maybe your just that damn competitive, and you find it hard beating someone that looks and behaves like yourself.
In the story Beowulf, How does the dragon exhibit the theme of revenge ultimately leading to death?
Grendel (younger dragon) is defeated and his mother attacks the hall in revenge, and is herself defeated. Fifty years later, Beowulf takes on another dragon, and well, he's the dragon-slayer, right? Wrong. He is defeated. End of story. I know this is an assignment, but this is really a cool story and you should do the reading for the fun of it, and make of it what you will. It's comparable to every aging prizefighter who got back into the ring out of pride and ego and selfishness. Or every NFL quarterback that was old and injured and came back for that one last season. There's an old saying, 'pride goeth before the fall.'
What are flaws in human nature?
“Human nature” is generally described as the basic, hard-wired traits and characteristics that we are all heir to as a result of our evolutionary heritage.Essentially, all of these characteristics and responses evolved to keep us alive…They are survival traits.So… None of them are “flaws” in that sense. They were all necessary for our survival as a species.However, they all originated to keep our ancestors, early Homo Sapiens, alive on the plains of Africa as primitive hunter-gatherers in small, inter-related bands.In modern, dense, technological society, some of these traits work well. We are altruistic, cooperative, loyal, protective, etc. We are creative and can work together to solve problems. All good.At the same time, we are aggressive, territorial, acquisitive, and we tend to “fear the other”. These things cause violence, war, greed, and the dehumanization and repression of other humans.Our major flaw, IMO, is our inability or unwillingness to recognize these things which have caused so much death, pain, and misery over history. As the biologist E. O. Wilson said in his book, “On The Nature Of Human Existence”, we need to study ourselves. The Humanities.
Can we build sentient machines which do not exhibit the character flaws that have driven humans to seek power over others?
A very interesting question that involves a very deep answer.We have to remember a number of different things in this question, the main one being “the drive for power”. People have desired power for years and the reasons are many and multiple. Whether this is due to ego, arrogance, or many other reasons, people have wanted to have control over many different areas of others lives for years.This is the issue. If you think of drive for power as control over others then we can see that the AI would have no interest in this in the way that we think. For example, Genghis Khan wanted to expand his empire for resources and for personal glory. He had to create an administration in order to keep the resources coming in. The control was made to make sure that the government worked. This is where we can see that the AI would have HUGE amount of interest in this. An Ai would have the power to control us by making us “safe” or making us work to the administration that was required. You could, therefore, assume that it would take control of people's lives not because of a personal desire, but because of the instructions it received were “misinterpreted” (This is the best word for this).It would have to be a VERY sophisticated AI to gain any of the personality traits that a human would display. As a result it would not be that it would look to gain power from a personality perspective, rather an interpretive way. To answer your question, therefore, an AI would look to control humans, for humans own benefit but would do this in a way that could be considered over caring more than anything else, rather than personal advantage.
Are human beings flawed?
I wouldn't say that we're flawed, but there's certainly something about the way our minds work that is very peculiar and actually creates a lot of trouble for us.What makes human beings particularly unique is not only that we can think in symbols, but that we also have an extra piece of circuitry in our brains that allows us to reflect upon our thinking. In other words, we can think about thinking, and so also think about thinking about thinking.Although it is this mechanism that gives us the capacity to reason and predict, it also lends itself to the most frustrating positive feedback loops. For example, many people in the world suffer greatly not simply because they are worrying about something, but because they worry about their worrying, and so also worry because they're worrying about worrying. A complicated vicious cycle emerges which can put tremendous stress on the nervous system.It's almost as if we're too self-aware. We're like an electronic circuit that doesn't trust itself to work properly, so it keeps feeding current from previous cycles into new cycles to be sure that it will complete each cycle, but over time the excess current causes the whole thing to explode due to excess heat.
Is our coccyx (tailbone) vestigial or does it exhibit Designer's genius?
Because evolutionary biologists have very little if any training in anatomy and physiology. As result the routinely embarrass themselves when they start talking about vestigial organs or bad design. In the 1950's evolutionary biologists asserted the human body had 35 or so vestigial organs. They included the entire endocrine system, the spleen, the appendix the tonsils the coccyx. Advances in medical science and anatomy and physiology has narrowed that list down to umm zero! SG Gould talked about the 'panda thumb'. Orthopedic doctors pointed out that for how the pandas use it, it is a very good design and if the panda thumb had the same articulations as human thumbs , as Gould suggests it should be if there was a intelligent designer, the joints would likely be destroyed in a few years due to stress and repetitive use. Dawkins made several critical comments about the design of the human eye. Ophthalmologists tore his comments apart so badly Dawkins looked like a total idiot! So why would an intelligent designer put in all these useless organs - He wouldn't , just because you don't know what they do, does not mean they don't do anything. Why would an intelligent designer put forth such a bad design - he didn't, just because you don't understand the design does not mean it is bad. It is kind of like a reversal of the "god of the gaps" If an evolutionary biologist does not know what it does or how it works it must be proof of bad design... How idiotic can you get?