You might want to get those glasses from specsavers instead of snapchat (Is it? assuming its one those weird app things and not real) then dearie because I am not the one derailing topics, I post my honest personal views on a subject, and if no one like its then tough, cry me a river because last time I checked this site was open to anyone capable of putting in a username and password, including psychopaths, not that I am one of course but those who don't or can't understand me label me as such. You don't see me having a go at others simply for their personal views now do you? So who is really the antagonist here?
To clarify, I say "you apes" as a general term for your species not a potshot, I am not calling anyone names directly as far as I recall so save your warnings for the weak, especially since A: threats have no effect on me and B, you lot have basically said the same thing about the forums yourselves I believe, how they are not the same as they used to be, how they are disappointing blah blah. I speak the truth, the forums are not the same, some posters in the recent months have been just idiotic roleplayers who you won't get anything intelligent out of. That said, there are some here like Dakotah, Laz and Cinn who are actually decent posters, shame that personal issues and over sensitivity gets in the latter's way.
What is humorous really, thanks to this being on this thread in particular is that misuse of power, even administrative is also like playing god or playing dictator really and plenty members here have much to say on admins too.
Personally I don't care about it either way, as long as the admins smartly stay out of my way because I bow down to no man or woman, no matter what power they wield, especially if its merely digital. That said I can respect it since I have been an administrator on a site before and aware of the responsibility and duty it comes with but not even I misused it so I expect others (especially if they presumably morally better) to follow suit, no one is above the rules and to clarify this, not speaking to you directly since as far as I know I haven't "seen" you misuse your position....well other than foolishly pointing your finger at the wrong villain. I am talking about admins in general on here, they have a....funny reputation here which is not entirely underserved and it doesn't help that they do not interact much with the community outside of messages and journals, I don't recall seeing an admin posting in here about the topics like us but of course, you can't administer a thread that you're personally involved in, it would be bias.
So point of this post, do try picking on those who are actually causing the disruptions in future dearie i.e those who willingly choose to disrupt a forum out of some over the top "moral" outrage instead of a polite disagreement....it is really easy to agree to disagree....I can't even believe that I am the one pointing this out. I am not the antagonist here and you know it Images, so feel free to warn others in future because I am not going to stop posting my views, I have a right to them as do any other poster
All I can do is make you a deal, a deal with the Devil so to speak. I will try and reduce my "verbal" contempt for your species in the forums (keyword there is reduce, not eliminate) and in return that you actually target those who are actively disrupting the forums no matter if their reactions is just or not because believe it or not dearie, I want these threads to stay on topic as much as any other serious poster, a good debate can only happen if a thread is on topic and I actually enjoy a little discussion with some of the more intelligent or at least enlightened ones.
Fact is I can't help my nature anymore than I could force the sun to set. Sometimes the world just has monsters in it and all you can do is stay out of their way. That is my warning.
But let us return to the programme at hand, now that we have had the weather forecast. Winter is here.
Cloning.
Cloning is a something I am mixed about because on one hand, extinct species that was not caused by nature could be somewhat restored, you would obviously have to have more than one dna type or you will just be creating the same individual over and over with no way to breed them naturally, plus if two individuals were created, female and male, incest would take hold as two members of a species cannot properly populate their species, so Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve can take that where the sun doesn't shine, never got how those fools thought such as thing would be believable but faith and superstition are strong indeed.
Since cloning doesn't actually have to be a full clone, organs and limbs could be grown and because they would presumably be the same dna of their donor, then rejection should not occur...but that can happen still. I know someone who had their ear bitten off by a dog, he then had it re-attached but it went black and fell off anyway, there are no guarantees.
Problem with organ transplants or any other transplants is balance, someone could live way too long if this particular field was highly developed, and curing is well and good but extending life merely because you want to live longer, now that is cheating.
Worse if it became possible for consciousness to be transferred as someone could arrange for their mind to be put in their younger and healthier cloned body. This could be done infinitely and thus a form of immortality, which is unacceptable....unless the clones are sterile, which would be fair since in the long run, there would eventually be a lot of sterile folks out there and the population would not really increase so much.
Nuclear Weapons.
I find these utterly overkill, the idea of them is usually deterrent against another superpower but their use means heavily collateral damage at best and a mutually assured destruction at worst, nuclear weapons is probably the stupidest way to protect oneself, its like burning a whole forest full of different lifeforms just to kill only one. I won't call it playing god since a nuke bomb's only purpose is to destroy and has no positive applications.
There is plenty of weapons that others could use to get the job done without irradiating their environment.
The wasteful thing about nukes is that as far as I know, nuclear waste cannot be rid of so easily or at all really. So man creates nukes with no intention of really using them and then they are stuck with waste that they cannot dispose of. Brilliant isn't it?....
No animal is more self-destructive.
Artificial Intelligence.
Quite curious about this myself, I would actually like to see what would happen if true A:I was born, what would it do to the world...or for it. Quite interesting to see how such an intelligence would view the world.
Would Lazarus' Neohuman merge happen? Would a human or even complete organic genocide apocalypse happen? Or would they co-existed independently of each other?
Creating A:I would definitely count as playing god since a "life" even if artificial, is being created. Prometheus played with that concept a little. David is a synthetic and he questions to Holloway, why the space jockeys or engineers as I think they were called, created man, he then asks him why humans created androids and he gets an offensive answer from Holloway "because we could" he says. David replies that it would be a disappointment to hear that from a creator, Holloway further twists the knife by saying "good job you don't get disappointed" Not sure if David or any android in the series is true A:I or self-aware, or can feel emotions but David's facial reaction seems to imply something of that nature.
Jurassic park's Ian mentions that the creators of the park were so concerned with what they "could" do that they never thought about if they "should". Something that humans don't tend to think about often enough.
Combine A:I with Nanotech capabilities and the world will change, whether it would be for better or worse would be in the eye of the beholder, I keep referencing Transcendence but only because it is a fine example and humans are the bad guys in that movie and correctly so since their technophobia and their delusions of Will building an army(when he was in fact healing people) had them attack them first even though Will and his workers did nothing to them, in fact the whole movie plot exists because one of the extremists tried to assassinate Will when he was human.
Extremists can be funny though, sometimes you can almost, keyword there is almost understand where they are coming from but their actions are nearly always malevolent and worse than those who they consider "villains".
A real life example those groups in the middle east that view the western world as corrupt and evil, yet it is them that target innocents and strap bombs to children. Funny definition of good and evil they got.
People fear what they don't understand so technophobes regarding A:I is not surprising, movies like Terminator and Matrix don't help since despite being obvious fiction, it still influences people as does most popular culture. A:I or even androids might not actually be a step forward for mankind but a step back since slavery is now illegal but since machines won't count as people, there is nothing to stop humans from misusing them or treating them as slaves. Of course, some slaves eventually rebel and then you got your sci fi robot wars.
Death Penalty.
I think I said my piece on this already...Not so much playing god as being a grade A hypocrite. You know some killers have actually let their victim run i.e given them a chance to survive but prisons don't, the inmate is not only told about their impending death which is something that will hang over them until the day is due but when it comes, they are strapped down with no means of escape. So humorously, the death penalty and those involved in it are more cruel and ruthless than some serial killers.
