I hate people who "hate humanity"

Humans are self interested, self seeking creatures who value the lives of themselves more than other animals and are destroying the planet. So I understand why someone would say they hate humanity.

Yeah cos no other species act in a self interested way and to ensure the continuing reproduction/spread of their kind? Any animal looks after itself or its kin (in the case of eusocial species) as its priority, the only reason other species haven't done as we do is due to them lacking the ability to do so. When we give species the ability, such as introducing rats/squirrels etc to areas where the local species cannot compete/survive their invasion is extreme and they decimate the environment. We cull thousands of deer a year because their population explodes, they do not regulate themselves, they would unbalance the ecosystem until it collapsed and they died off, something else would take their place after this.

As for destroying the planet, not really, we may be impacting on global warming to a degree, though we are of course coming out of an ice age, the world has a long way to warm up yet, no ice on the poles is a normal part of the planetary cycle. If you mean destroying the rainforest and such, yes we are changing the planet to suit us as any species top of the food chain would if it could. The Earth will be here long after we've annihilated ourselves via nuclear war or have mostly left it to colonize other parts of the galaxy.

I mean many humans are *****, but I'd argue most people are decent, especially when encountered alone and not driven by some sort of mob mentality.

People can be kind and empathetic, however they only act this way to feel good about themselves, or to gain acceptance from peers.

I fail to see how me 'righting these social wrongs' as you put it would give what I have said anymore validity

If you truly believed something, rather than posturing, you would take action rather than just complaining about it, in Starbucks or wherever.

(this isn't you personally, anyone I mean)

And yes, we are destroying the earth which you say all animals would do if they were intelligent enough, however it is because of our intelligence that we should be protecting the earth.

If you truly believed something, rather than posturing, you would take action rather than just complaining about it, in Starbucks or wherever.

(this isn't you personally, anyone I mean)

This is something I have started to notice; it has been a slight theme among people I know, but even more extreme among online people who call themselves "introverts" or "misanthropes", people who claim they hate humanity. They seem to think their immature, angst-ridden, nonsense, somehow sets them apart from others and think it makes them more interesting, when they claim everyone else is "boring" and "fake" (yet most people I hear saying this, spend all their lives either gaming or binge-watching TV...). I just think this needs to be said,

Eh as I say, I don't think we're destroying it per se. We damage other species, but the planet itself is not "damaged". When we become extinct due to destroying the environment, it will recover in time, or species will evolve which can inhabit it. I'm sure the anaerobic bacteria which suffered a mass extinction billions of years ago would have declared the oxygen producing bacteria which began to alter the environment as a plague destroying the planet if they could have done. We should know better in that our behaviour may damage our own capacity to survive (food shortage, farmland becoming arid) but as said, global warming is not man made in itself and if we do begin to see such damaging change that we as a species are under real threat, we will engineer a solution, we always do, its why we dominate this planet in areas where really we would not naturally be able to survive. If we have no solution, our population will plummet to the degree that we are no longer impacting the environment in a significant way.

As for the no such thing as altruism comment. It's difficult, I am very altruistic. I put myself at a disadvantage for people, I like to make people happy, to see them cheer up, etc. Now I don't do this because I crave acceptance, I am quite eccentric, I'm sure people find me odd at times. I suppose I do it because it makes me feel good in a way, but IMO that does not really detract from it being altruism. I do not gain realistically, and feeling a positive emotional response when others display one is a pretty basic natural response.

This is something I have started to notice; it has been a slight theme among people I know, but even more extreme among online people who call themselves "introverts" or "misanthropes", people who claim they hate humanity. They seem to think their immature, angst-ridden, nonsense, somehow sets them apart from others and think it makes them more interesting, when they claim everyone else is "boring" and "fake" (yet most people I hear saying this, spend all their lives either gaming or binge-watching TV...). I just think this needs to be said, this is not introversion, this is is messed up.


Not saying that every who says this has SPD, but these things do exist along a spectrum

*steps off soapbox*

It's not nerdy, it's angtsy

they need to buckle up and quit their complaining

This is something I have started to notice; it has been a slight theme among people I know, but even more extreme among online people who call themselves "introverts" or "misanthropes", people who claim they hate humanity. They seem to think their immature, angst-ridden, nonsense, somehow sets them apart from others and think it makes them more interesting, when they claim everyone else is "boring" and "fake" (yet most people I hear saying this, spend all their lives either gaming or binge-watching TV...). I just think this needs to be said, this is not introversion, this is is messed up.


Not saying that every who says this has SPD, but these things do exist along a spectrum

*steps off soapbox*

People think I do things to be hipster or edgy when it's more about not liking conforming to things that don't make sense. .

This describes me perfectly

I dislike a lot of people. I'm in the horrible juxtaposition that I love people...but most people around today are *******s. I'm a people person but the average person is so annoying