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ART, I'd love to get you and Voltaire in a room together.
Conceeding the premise that humanity is inherently flawed for the sake of argument, I have to argue that it's a fatal flaw - we ain't fixable. There are few constants in human history, and one of those is human nature. We diefy those who somehow transcend that nature - Christ, the Buddah, Mohammed, etc. - but at the end of the day, we're a pissy little species hell-bent on destruction at the fastest possible rate. We've become incredibly efficient at inflicting misery on everyone and everything around us since the day we came down from the trees.
In other words, if you're right, we're doomed.
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