Do you think the human race give itself too much credit?

Question

Put aside all of the scientific and technological advances, which are indeed astounding. I think human beings tend to forget that we are still part of the animal kingdom. When it comes down to it, those animal impulses are what drives us. What do you think?

That should read 'gives'...for shame...

Answer 1

I think anyone who forgets they are animals needs only retire to the bathroom and engage in excretory activities to remember we're just the same, it's just our brains that seem to have figured out some interesting tricks.

Answer 2

Yea we give ourselves too much credit

Scientific and Technical advances aren't all that astounding, the astounding thing is how long it took man to put two and two together.

Which leads us to animal instinct and man with his mortar and pestal thinking. I keep wondering what advances we'll make when woman sheds that sterotype and thinks in purely female terms.

I also wonder why man is the only animal to make war.

We definately give ourselves too much credit.

If we were all that great, would would have had the TV set and computer by 1 AD

All the pieces were in place, man just couldn't see past his nose.

It took the Chinese over 1,000 years to come up with the compass.

Man was looking through bottles of water in 500 BC and didn't figure out how to make lenses.

Answer 3

As an outsider (according to my former employer) I'd say that the Human Race does think a little too highly of itself.

Primarily I see this in the assessment of advances in technology and medicine. The medical business in particular has not made nearly as much progress in curing illness as it has in robbing people of what little they can set aside towards a better future.

Answer 4

We do so much to try to disguise the traits that so readily identify us as just another part of the animal world. We even convince ourselves that we are somehow at the top of the evolutionary process, that our own evolution has stopped and we are the end result. I wonder if Neanderthal man or Homo Erectus also had a feeling they were the top of the heap and somehow different from the rest of the natural world?

Answer 5

Our planet has lengthy gone into disaster with each and every of the Wars and all of that, yet i'm happy issues are extra useful and hoping there'll by no ability be a international conflict III because we had to many Wars already, i have also heard that some Scientists attempt to make their personal life variety, How ****** up is that? properly i'm hoping everyone would come to peace quickly, Which I doubt wont will take position.

Answer 6

Way too much. We don't have anything else to be in awe of but ourselves. Human culture is like a man with no friends that finds enjoyment in staring at himself in the mirror. I 've always hoped that we discover other intelligent life so we can stop being so fascinated with ourselves.

Answer 7

Yeah. People always pretend to be devastated when a tragedy strikes an area remote from their own. Really, at least 40,000 people die every 24 hours, i think. Next time it could be them. Or me. And who would really care except the few that are close to me?
Definitely think the race is full of itself.

Answer 8

The human race is a cancer to the Earth. We, destroy everything we can get our hands on. Do you think Mother Earth really wanted concrete jungles, her animals wiped extinct, and wars? The human race, by nature destroys everything it touches.

Answer 9

Yes. It is humans false impression of their own superiority that will bring about our downfall, and ultimate extinction, as a race.

Answer 10

Of course. Everything we do is because of two motivations: survive and propagate. If you want a third, there's curiosity, which is common mostly to mammals and little else.