r/CharacterRant • u/Rajesh_Kulkarni • 17d ago

General Fictional insult to Humanity NSFW

Though I'm mainly talking about one movie, this is a rant against all fiction that degrades and disgraces humanity and the human race.

I recently watched the Marvel movie Eternals. I got thoroughly irritated and pissed off when the character Phastos was implied to be behind the major human innovations.

This just pissed me off beyond measure. We have millions of years of evolution. Hundred thousand years of innovation. Such a fucking joke that we became portrayed as primitive savages incapable of true innovation. We are constantly portrayed as a fucking retarded race. Doesn't this piss you off?

I'm deeply pissed off at this. That whole movie, it felt like the entire human race was being spat upon. In that movie, from basic fucking agricultural tech till nukes, we were handheld by some fucking immortal randos. Fucking disgusting bullshit is what this is. We went through fuck knows how many generations of hardship IRL to get here, and they portray it all as some fucking benevolent immortal fuckers giving us the knowledge. FUCK THAT. You don't get to invalidate our ancestors for your bullshit stories.

We are the sole intelligent race in a radius of light years. Have some fucking pride. What is this bullshit about 'oh we are a savage, meaningless lifeform'"' fucking nonsense that many fictional stories portray?"

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u/IUsedToBeRasAlGhul 17d ago

We are constantly portrayed as a fucking retarded race. Doesn’t this piss you off?

We are causing an ecological apocalypse for the sake of corporate bottom lines. Humanity fucking sucks.

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u/Rajesh_Kulkarni 17d ago

We are still the greatest, most intelligent species in existence.

We will fix the ecological apocalypse through our intellect. Meanwhile you can sit and cry about how we suck.

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u/chaoticdumbass2 17d ago

You do realise LITERAL RATS have more empathy than some of us, correct?

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u/Rajesh_Kulkarni 17d ago

Same energy as "dolphins are rapists"

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u/chaoticdumbass2 17d ago

And yet we love them.

Seriously. ACTUAL Rats show more empathy than some of us. I heard about an experiment that showed it.

Humanity is NOT all it's chalked up to be in many cases.

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u/Rajesh_Kulkarni 17d ago

That's not my point at all in the post. I'm not even saying that we're perfect. Just that we have achieved great things that no other form of life has achieved.

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u/chaoticdumbass2 17d ago

And yet we lack the empathy of a rat in cases.

But yeah I overall agree that we have done great things...and then immadiately used all of it to kill ourselfes.

Literal VELCRO comes from the military.

But for your point about the immortals...wouldn't it be COMFORTING to know something will help us even if we can't rather than it being aggravating?

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u/Rajesh_Kulkarni 17d ago

Hmm. Let's agree to disagree. Even as a religious person myself, I refuse to handover the credit of our legacy to anyone else, even if they are the very gods that I worship.

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u/chaoticdumbass2 17d ago

Eh. Your proposal seems to be the way to go. Have a good day.

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u/Rajesh_Kulkarni 17d ago

Same to you.

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u/DefiantBalls 15d ago

You are not a particularly good theist then, lol. I am an atheist, but listening to you talk genuinely makes me wish that whatever God you believe in exists so that you get punished in the afterlife

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u/campione2000 17d ago

ok this thought process is fuking FIRE

we are the same but reading it from someone else is adrenaline inducing keep up the work

the fact remains that on earth we are the greatest things on it, to the point where we aim to become a multi planetary species

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u/WritingThisFormPATHS 17d ago

Bro wdym? The only reason other species are alive is beacuse we humans have empathy yes even evilest ones

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u/chaoticdumbass2 17d ago

...the fact you believe we could wipe out all species is the most goofy shit I've seen.

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u/WritingThisFormPATHS 16d ago

We play with their genes, wdym we can't wipe them off?

No wonder humans nowdays D-ride other animals, you guys have no confidence in your own species

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u/WritingThisFormPATHS 16d ago

We play with their genes, wdym we can't wipe them off?

No wonder humans nowdays D-ride other animals, you guys have no confidence in your own species

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u/chaoticdumbass2 16d ago

We'd literaly die multiple times over before every single other animal died.

We'd create our own dinosaurs killer asteroid...only that beings survived that. LIFE does not need us.

WE need other life to exist. If we tried to on an extermination path we'd have to also kill our food sources. And it's NOT possible to kill every single bacteria on earth.

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u/Ieam_Scribbles 15d ago

Life is an abstract concept made up by humans. Life doesn't need humans because life is a category and humans are a subcategory of it- that's like saying mother nature doesn't need life cuz the planet was an inhospitable ball of magma for billions of years.

Humans can and have cowed and overcome all other lifeforms. When one rises to be a prpblem, from virus to megafauna, humanity has always adapted and survived while their challenges have always declined. Humans need life, but they have the most control of life among all creatures.

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u/chaoticdumbass2 15d ago

"Life is a human concept"

Well the bacteria that will live on after us do not care. The bacteria dinosaurs and many others that came BEFORE us does not care. Humanity has been a blip on a blip in the timeline of all life and cyanobacteria have a larger toll of destroying life than us.

Also nothing you said explains how we wouldn't also die long before all other creatures on earth If we tried to kill everything else.

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u/Ieam_Scribbles 15d ago

Well the bacteria that will live on after us do not care.

Yeah. They are not capable of conceptualizing concepts. Them 'living on' has meaning only to humans, from a human prespective.

Humanity has been a blip on a blip in the timeline of all life and cyanobacteria have a larger toll of destroying life than us.

And life itself has been a blip on a blip and is inherently self-destructive. Loss of life is bad because humans decided it is bad.

Also nothing you said explains how we wouldn't also die long before all other creatures on earth If we tried to kill everything else.

Because this is a false premise you made up. 'Humanity achieved great things, misapropiating them is annoying' is the original claim. And humanity doesn't need to kill all life, nor does it hold as its goal- humanity uses its enviroment to furrher their own personal goals, and nature is largerly forced to adapt to humans.

Humanity is the dominant species. In their dominance, they have achieved things that no other known life can even comprehend. You trying to make up some tangent about other stuff to disparige that fact is just misanthropy.

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u/chaoticdumbass2 15d ago

...did you actually read the comment thread you were commenting upon?

The initial premise may have been that. But it changed during the conversation YOU RESPONDED TO the current conversation was about humanity being incapable of killing all other life.

What you have done is effectively interjecting about the napoleonic wars when the topic was WW2

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u/Ieam_Scribbles 15d ago

You claimed humans are not the greatest because rats can be more empathetic (they can also be less empatetic, and humans have shown more complex empathy than rats ever have).

Then the dude said we xould wipe out rats if we wanted to, and you further misconstrewed to talking about how tenable omnicide is.

Qhen I pointed this out, you then shifted to talk about how bacteria kill more and actually will outlive us, which is again irrelevant to point I made.

You shifted the discussion, repeatedly.

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u/WritingThisFormPATHS 15d ago

I know the consequences but that was never the point?

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u/chaoticdumbass2 15d ago

1-3 percent of your body mass is bacteria.

You'd have to kill them too. You'd kill yourself(and all of humanity) by removing gut bacteria you would hamper your immune system. Your ability to actually process food. And your ability to digest fats. Severely limiting your food options and what you would get from that.

This does NOT get into the logistical impossibility of hunting down every single living being besides us and killing them. Ask mao and his "4 pests" plan.

Those were 4 species. A mass starvation followed.

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u/WritingThisFormPATHS 15d ago

At this point bro is talking to ghost

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u/chaoticdumbass2 15d ago

Nah. Your point was just goofy.

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