I liken it to humanity devoting almost a third of our planetary output on perfecting the poison that will reduce everyone but the creator to useless, incompetent, stooges. This is obviously an incredible net good for the species as a whole. We should never stop this.

“It’s like being the focus of a crowd of untiring salesmen who are slick manipulators with training in Psychology and with no ethics at all.”

It’s not LIKE that. It IS that. It’s literally exactly that.

It has not been that way for that long though. They used to lose support if they openly killed people in the streets.

I think you are underestimating the level of chaos and violence we are headed for. This is going to be much worse than Rome. We will be the barbarians at our own gates.

Not entirely, and you did a great job of overcoming that. But learning empathy and really anything is easiest as a child and the parents are the best avenue for that.

We learned a lot of lessons from the first one. Here’s hoping we don’t make the same mistakes.