No Stupid Questions

Also, could I rant about human rights actually became a thing? It's mad that everyone set aside their selfish interests and agreed not to do X horrible things to each other. Of course, there are assholes who don't care about human rights, but generally the world at large condemns these assholes for being horrible people. We have agreed as an international community not to recklessly not to go to war, the nation state as a concept is a thing (rather than a mess of conflict for every inch of the world, most countries have accepted each other as sovereign nations and respect their right to exist), international aid for developing nations for no reason other than to be a nice person (although you could argue some countries do it for other reasons, but in either case, people in need are getting the medical care, food, shelter, and all sorts of other essentials! That's AMAZING, good job us humans!), we have agreed not to use our most powerful weapons to obliterate each other for most part (see nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons), the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS THE MOST AMAZING HUMAN COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE EVER, IT'S SO AWESOME, PEOPLE AREN'T BLOWING EACH OTHER UP IN SPACE, WE HAVE AGREED TO USE IT FOR THE GOOD OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITY, we have agreed as an international community to create organisations to handle international disputes, international aid, researching medicine and science, preservation of historical sites, discussion, ecological conservation and all sorts (most notably, the U.N., where countries big and small sit as equals where they can discuss issues, disputes, and crisises. The U.N. also has many branching organisations specialising in all sorts of other stuff!), the Red Cross/Crescent and various other NGOs made of international volunteers helping people simply for the sake of HELPING PEOPLE, even in zones of war and conflict, I could go on! Humanity has recognised that other humans should be treated, well, humanely. In the modern age, mass killings of populations, reckless war, intentionally burning down forests, etc. are unthinkably evil when they were common practice in ancient civilisations. There are still some assholes who do horrible, truly horrible things (see Israhell doing all their "pre-emptive self defenseman" that somehow requires the mass starvation of Palestinians + denial of international aid for mentioned starving Palestinians, ICE in the U.S. terrorising communities, Russia kidnapping children in Ukraine, neo-Nazis doing Nazi bullshit in Australia, Europe, and everywhere else, but even so, the world condemns these horrible people and they denounce their actions and horribleness)

The higher we soar, the harder we fall.

All the knowledge and resources that have built this wonderous technological world we live in, are finite, and it would only take a few well placed/timed natural/man-made disasters to revert us permanantly back to the iron age (at best) within months.

(Seriously, a large solar flare alongside a highly contageous and deadly disease could not only wipe out all electronics but also the majority of the minds and bodies required to mine, trade, manufacture, build and operate them.)

And that's without even acknowledging the looming catastrophic climate collapse and resource depletion coming for us this century. Without stable climates, arable land and fresh water, there is no life.

Enjoy the last of the abundance we have, but don't be so optimistic as to be blind to it's precariousness.