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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate humanity?

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I would usually say 0 out of 10

But a handful of amazing people up the average to a 2 out of 10.
 
Speaking strictly about USA, 7/10, we have it a lot better than the 3rd world countries though, which I'm sure are 3/10 and down.
 
So many depressing answers in here. Here, I'll fix that:

I GIVE IT A TEN MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

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Deku said:
We're 0.72 on the Kardashev scale.
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yeap, that's definitely less than 1, and you can be sure that we will never reach even type I.
and this is counting technological feats only.

if you add spiritual, sociological etc grades of our civ into the equation, it is very sad to discover that we are probably one of the lowest graded scums of the universe.
 
lightless_shado said:
I wonder if that would be so easy for you to say if you grew up poor knowing that out there there are people who are obese and have eating contests while most of the world is literally starving to death/inundated with disease. :/
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Most of the world? Really? Most of the world?
 
10/10. Humanity is amazing. It's only our futile attempts to curb our baser instincts that makes us look down on ourselves.

At the end of the day, if we render this planet uninhabitable then at least we can look back and say "We killed a fucking planet!". That's pretty impressive.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
11.

Are you kidding? For every gargantuanly awful thing that humankind has done to itself, to each other, to its planet; every single day someone makes a choice to help someone else at the expense of their own well being. We've created art, we've created technological advances, medicine.

Jeepers creepers, humanity is top drawer, eff the haters.
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This is so true, but the shitty part is that the nice folks will never make the new because all the media focuses on the bad folks/bad news!
 
p3tran said:
nah... only a little over a billion are really starving. you can rest easy.
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When you say most of the world is starving, it shows that something is very wrong with your world view. It does in no way imply that I feel there is no problem with food distribution.
 
I won't rate us until we reach Alpha Centauri or the year 2050. Plenty of time to clean up some pollution and develop some future tech to improve our score.
 
Kabouter said:
When you say most of the world is starving, it shows that something is very wrong with your world view. It does in no way imply that I feel there is no problem with food distribution.
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It was not me that originally said the words you were quoting.

but I guess over one billion people starving to death should mean something more than "food distribution" problems, right?
 
I rate the vast majority of the human population with 1 because they're retards with zero critical thinking roaming this earth just to consume, reproduce and die. Pathetic useless worker bees busting their asses for the "future of their children" they raised just like them to become pathetic worker bees and continue the tradition. There are also the dipshits that deserve a 2 because they have intellect, self-awareness and know how the world works but instead of helping to make it better they exploit the moronic worker bees to be on top.

Then there are the 4s who have all of the above don't want to exploit their fellow humans but also do nothing to help, just whine (unintentionally waking up some worker bees though) and the 6s that do the best they can to change the world but relatively safely (I'd like to think I'm in that category). From there on, there are the heroes that give their lives to save the world from these pests keeping it enslaved and scientists, intellectuals and artists who devote their lives for the development of the human civilization. I can rate the idiots below me but I don't want to do it with the ones above me.


In conclusion the average is probably one point something due to all the idiots living in this world but it's not that simple, you can't rate such a broad term with an average. I could also judge humanity by its actions which rate from minus 1 million to ten but I still wouldn't reach a conclusion. I don't know what the exact rating is but one thing's for sure, we're definitely below average.
 
I don't think humanity can be rated on such simplistic terms seeing as how it is such a complex collection of creatures. Yes, indeed, elements of humanity have perpetrated horrific acts but the flip-side is that other elements have created wonderful elements. Yes, the modern world is facing problems, huge problems, but it like all of humanity turns a blind eye towards it. There are those who try to help the environment, feed the poor, fight greed and corruption, in short, humanity, cuktures, nations, demographics, and so on and so forth and not monoliths.
 
We have to suffer Thom Yorke and Matthew Bellamy, yes, but then there are people like Regina Spektor who make it worth all the pain. And remember this is a planet which has produced Shigeru Miyamoto AND Christopher Nolan. Unfortunately they'll probably all get run over by drunk drivers at some point.

7/10. Always 7/10.
 
fortified_concept said:
I rate the vast majority of the human population with 1 because they're retards with zero critical thinking roaming this earth just to consume, reproduce and die. Pathetic useless worker bees busting their asses for the "future of their children" they raised just like them to become pathetic worker bees and continue the tradition.
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Unless you posted that via pigeon currier that you trained yourself, your contempt for honest people that produce consumer goods with no aspirations beyond sustaining themselves is pretty absurd. Even more when you consider the existence of rapists and murderers.
 
Gouty said:
Unless you posted that via pigeon currier that you trained yourself, your contempt for honest people that produce consumer goods with no aspirations beyond sustaining themselves is pretty absurd. Even more when you consider the existence of rapists and murderers.
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Rapists and murderers are an anomaly, I don't have to consider each tiny category when I'm rating such a huge group. I put them in the category of "brain-dead retards" with the rest of them. Of course the rating fluctuates depending on the person but these are semantics. If it makes you feel better make the worker bees a two, the dipshits a three and leave everything else the same. But I insist, they're the lowest kind of humans because they are the biggest part of the problem with this world. I will never respect a human being that doesn't use the most important organ of the human body, his/her fucking brain.
 
I don't know. There's nothing to compare us to, I have no point of reference. The fact that we can exist at all probably makes us a 10.
 
missbreedsiddx said:
I would usually say 0 out of 10

But a handful of amazing people up the average to a 2 out of 10.
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Oh poor you, i guess a handfull of shitty people affected you and that makes humanity suck right?
 
Humanity as a whole cannot be graded. Rather split it up :

"Good" humans ( and no this does not mean you have to have won the good samaritan price 10 years in a row in order to qualify, just a decent human being ) : bright people, scientists, musicians, teachers,the fucking ISS. If I sit down for a million years I couldn't write down all the good and amazing things we've done. Truly a marvel of the universe. 10/10,with a star-sticker.

"Garbage" - "humans" : whatever you want to toss in here. Warmongerers, greedy, murderous,garbage-humans. -∞/10
 
I can't rate it properly without something to compare to. I'm not a games reviewer who pulls numbers out of his ass.


I could maybe rate the progress of humanity, though all what counts in the end is to expand our knowledge (yeah, music and all that art stuff is nice but it doesn't help at all. Well, maybe to entertain the people making progress so they can relax etc.).

Technological progress is currently better now, after leaving the middle ages and the oppression of religious fucks. Though if we get (partly self-made) problems with resources or natural catastrophes, it may slow us down again. Not sure about impact of another big war, it tends to make people creative and more money is spend on research (though obviously in a negative way first).

Humanity compared to each other is pretty fucked up. Big differences between third world and industrial countries, even though I'm pretty sure if all the countries work together they could e.g. end the world hunger, just like that.

Humanity in the context of all other animals/lifeforms is really bad. There is and probably never has been an organism on the planet which caused so much destruction to the ecosystem and extinction of whole species. This is the only one I can give a rating: 0/10
 
p3tran said:
It was not me that originally said the words you were quoting.

but I guess over one billion people starving to death should mean something more than "food distribution" problems, right?
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When I say food distribution problems, I am only talking about what the problem is, not the scale of it. And that is what the problem is, as the problem is not in the production of food, which is more than sufficient for the entire planet. So no, it should not mean something more than that.
 
Raiden said:
In here it is cool to rate low!
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You post pictures of humanity's greatest accomplishments and I'll post about the exploitation, wars and horrors (often results of the same societies responsible for the accomplishments). If after watching both you feel nice and upbeat then feel free to give humanity a great score, but I seriously doubt that. You know why? Because all the technology and progress the world doesn't worth shit if countless people are suffering to make that happen.
 
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