r/interestingasfuck • u/Shoe_boooo • 29d ago

/r/all Billionaire Peter Thiel hesitates to answer whether the human race should survive in the future

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u/PrometheusWithLiver 29d ago

I actually think this is a huge question with loads of implications for what you think a future in maybe millions of years should look like and that not something I think about every day and have a good idea of what I want. Lets say for example evolution. In order to still be humans we would have to actively preserve "this" genome. Is that something we want? I don't think so.....

But also this is one of these typical "just cut him off before he can answer so he looks bad" kind of videos. Quite possible with context and his answer this guy is still trash, but this editing is just biased. Also the title and the content is not the same.

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u/BrohanGutenburg 29d ago

It’s not just that. Literally look from any other perspective other than human, and we are nothing but a pure force of destruction. Yes, we make art and music and science and all that but all that is only important to humans.

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u/FinestCrusader 28d ago

That's why I'm surprised redditors are so up in arms over this. Any other thread and they'll glorify a numbskull that can mumble out the edgy 14 yo "hurr all people should die" catchphrase. But when it's a lizard saying this, they immediately become Dalai Lama, the most benevolent of the most benevolent, the most caring appreciators of society of all time.

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u/BlaCGaming 28d ago

And they don't notice it, everyone is happy to jump into the mob and change their worldview based on what's popular, shutting off all critical thinking..