Finally Today

Please help me change my thought process!?

In my new quest to extinguish pessimism and add compassion and optimism to my personality, I have encountered several road blocks. There are certain aspects of my opinions that seem to be engrained in my DNA. I am willing to admit that I maybe wrong, but how do I change it when it makes sense to me? I don’t want to be a monster. My ideas are compared to communist leaders like that of Hitler, and Castro! This seems a little extreme to me, because I don’t want to incorporate cruelty or hurt people, but I have to appreciate the perception of an outsider so that I may gain insight in my thoughts. I am not a bad person, and to ponder these comparisons, I have to wonder if perhaps Hitler and Castro were not bad people ether. This is incredibly difficult to do because it is comforting to think that they were bad people, just a glitch in the matrix, a model that has been recalled. A few of the issues I have strong, and controversial opinions on are as follows: We are spending a lot of money searching for a cure for HIV/AIDS. I believe it to be an extreme waste. If I am correct, the only way to obtain the disease is through the transfer of bodily fluids, and the gross majority of those infected, are drug users and people who do not practice safe sex. This is especially touchy because I don’t feel sorry for people who contract the disease via broken condom, or the infidelity of a spouse. I believe that contraction of the disease is the inevitable result of societies tolerance for promiscuous behavior and lack of common sense. With a little effort from the community as a whole, this disease is preventable. I believe the lack of a cure should serve as an incentive to take your body and what you put into it more seriously. I feel bad for the people who are suffering from it, the same way I feel bad for people who die in car crashes. I know of other diseases that a significant number of the entire population can contract through no fault of their own, you wake up one morning with cancer, or worse, you wake up one morning and your five year old has cancer. I believe this to be obvious and don’t understand why we waste time and money on this. I understand loved ones are involved, but everyone cant live forever (especially at the rate we consume natural resources) Just like the reason for developing the system they use for determining potential organ recipients. When I was a kid, and we were learning about pollution, and the wasting of natural resources, I was in fourth grade. I went home from school every day that week, in a panic, devising my plan to save the world. My first order of business, was to set all the dogs in the neighborhood free. I had heard somewhere that sugar in the gas tank, or a potato in the exhaust would make the car blow up, and this was my solution for the pollution caused by vehicles. I was planning to recruit other kids in the neighborhood to join my plight, and was already considering how fast we would have to act, and going world wide… my home town wouldn’t be enough. As an adult, I am terrified of my nine year old mind! But I still feel like the planet, and all the animals on it deserve to exist in peace. I wish this to be accomplished by any means necessary, including but not limited to violence. Of course a peaceful means should be attempted initially. However, because time is working against us rather than for us, we cannot wait for the last guy to take his time pulling his head out of his ass. Some people believe that humans deserve more rights, or are dominant in some way. But what a double standard that is! How is it different to say white people deserve more rights than black people. Where does it end if everyone has a different idea of whose life is worth saving? What kind of world do we live in, if the majority cannot agree that all innocent life is sacred? Genocide is a taboo subject when it’s my solution to the cure for starvation but perfectly acceptable when it comes to whales and polar bears. These third world countries have been “starving” since I was a kid, we have been feeding them via charity for more than twenty years. I propose we start sterilizing them at birth. That way, at least the last ones may get a chance to live out their lives having food and medicine. Obviously they are not able to sustain themselves allowing them to die out in peace is not even going to put a dent in the human population.! So as the order goes, the weak are supposed to die out, while the strong are meant to thrive. This is the natural order. Some may argue that I am not being fair, and that such order goes both ways. Let me assure you I understand and acknowledge this. However, it seems to make sense that because we occupy the top of the food chain, we owe a certain responsibility to the rest of the planet not to hoard every single resource this planet offers. I am sure t I wish I could think less! I know that has to be a major cause of my anguish!

Public Comments

1. and WHEN is your novel coming out?
2. What would it be like, if you were to think less?
3. I'm interested to see if this question gets pulled, but there are some interesting thoughts in here, as disturbing as they may seem. Where do I start... I'm actually going to start with this last paragraph and move backwards: "So as the order goes, the weak are supposed to die out, while the strong are meant to thrive. This is the natural order." Very true. This is the most basic of natural laws: the strong conquer and destroy the weak. But you can't make the assumption that "natural"="good." Following that logic, rape, infanticide, torture and war are all good things. All of these things are common practice in the animal kingdom, and always have been. But here's what makes humans unique: somehow, someway, we stumbled upon this unique thing called consciousness (I actually have a basic understanding of how this happened, but it takes an entire book to explain, and scientists like Richard Dawkins and Matt Ridley have already written them). Our awareness of the universe around us and how it functions gives us the unique ability to act unnaturally. We can act morally and treat other people fairly in spite of nature, which is cruel and unfair. We can practice selflessness even though it is not in our best interests as individual biological creatures to be selfless. It is because of this unique ability to act morally that human life is more important to sustain than other animals. All living creatures deserve the right to be treated as well as we can treat them, but humanity has the CAPACITY for beautiful, unique traits such as selfless love. If humans become incapable of being selfless, incapable of caring for other beings, then our extinction is not only justified, it's inevitable. As far as your view of HIV, I disagree for a few reasons, but mostly because sex education is so terrible (especially in America) that a lot of people who practice unsafe sex do so because they received poor sexual education. And promiscuity among humans is natural. Or more simply, sex is fun and we should all have the right to do it as much as possible with as few negative consequences as possible. If you really want to change your mindset, I would recommend the book "Origins of Virtue," by Matt Ridley. It shows how even though we are controlled by selfish genes, humans have developed ways of cooperating with each other and acting selflessly toward complete strangers. I will end with this: just because something doesn't sit well with most people does not mean it is not true.