Misanthropy

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Any misanthropists here? If so, why?

I'm a misanthrope based on my years of observation of other people. Humans are, in general, contemptible and stupid creatures.

I hate Wal-Mart, does that count as hating people?

There are all sorts of people. Some are kind and generous and intelligent, some are silly and helpless, some are stupid and brutal. I try to tell them apart and am not always successful but it's worth the effort. I don't hate dogs or cats or pigeons or squirrels because they are stupid. I give people the same consideration.

I am a misanthrope as well.

I don't know why. I'd like to say that it is because of my objectivity and clarity in thought, however, it is entirely possible that this is a personality issue. In any case, off the cuff, I agree with Orwell, and I will also say this: every single person in existence is both insane and absurd. Maybe I am being cynical here, but in order to have the kind of long-standing disagreements that we have to have today, some people have to be insane, and if some people are, why not all people?

Yes. Humans are selfish, stupid creatures. I don't get a lot of their ideas and values. If a person abuses an animal it is either called entertainment or science, but if same thing is done to a person, it is a crime. People win nobel prizes for hurting animals but get life sentences for doing things to people. People who try to save animals from this abuse are labeled as terroist while the people responsible for it are celebrated as heros. Animals only kill out of desperation such as for food but people kill for a thrill and to make them feel bigger. If a person wears the skin of an animal, they are considered "fashionable" but if they wear the skin of another person, they are called "phycopaths" or "mentaly ill".

Humans are selfish creatures. They don't care if they step on a "lesser" species to figure out what makes themselves tick or to find a cure for one of their afflications or to make sure their products to make themselves beautiful are "safe". They think since they can speak that those who do not are uniltenigent and aren't actualy concious but are just under the control of "instinct" so it's alright to bend them to our will. I hate humans as a species.

I used to be one. Why? I thought everyone was stupid. I was judgmental. Why? I spent a lot of time trying to analyze people and I came to some conclusion that they were phonies. Maybe I was the phoney and I was just pissed that I had to conform. Now I see that I was stupid because there is so much beauty in humanity, like the beauty in dolphins. Yeah, there is a lot of ugliness, but there is far more beauty.

Also, Orcas and other species of dolphin kill for fun, even when they aren't hungry. And chimps are some seriously violent creatures- they make humans look downright peaceful.

And to be fair, it's not just the animal kingdom. Autotrophs (algae mostly) caused a mass extinction when they first began to photosynthesize and polluted the early atmosphere with highly corrosive oxygen. Later plants created an ice age because they used up too much of the atmospheric CO2 and negated the greenhouse effect.

So yeah, there seem to be adequate grounds for hating living things in general, at least if we go by PunkyKat's criterion of needless killing and destruction of ecosystems.

Just read my sig - it translates as 'Man is a famished, envious, insatiable beast.'