Humans are inherently good.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank you, Mr. Locke.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

These melodramatic posts about how terrible humanity is are getting old. Yeah, that dude who drove his elderly neighbor to the hospital because she broke her hip is a real douche.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This post reminds me of a poem by ee cummings. "pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness --- electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself. A world of made is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence. We doctors know a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For the same reason pig is at the end of guinea pig. Out of all the guinea pigs I see and meet every day, only a few are compulsive over-eaters. The "pig" isn't a reference to our diets, it's to the sound we make when excited over the prospect of a good carrot. Similarly, "kind" is being used to indicate the type of something, like "I want that kind of vase," or "It was that kind of day." Humankind simply means the kind of animal that we call human, not that humans in themselves are particularly kind. Although I do know some nice ones.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i like the sound of mandouche.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

or maybe because kind means type. like, what kind of candy are you eating? this is not clever.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

this^

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I like to think so.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe YOU aren't. Speak for yourself.

by Anonymous 12 years ago