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Most humans should be exterminated Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot style
Humans are very primitive we are not even a type I civilization on the kardashev scale. The world is overpopulated and climate change is the greatest market failure in history.
Individually most humans are like chimpanzees. In groups especially above 150 humans need to believe in common myths or fiction ( lies) in order just to function.
"Any large-scale human cooperation – whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe – is rooted in common myths that exist only in peoples collective imagination. Churches are rooted in common religious myths. Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins. States are rooted in common national myths. Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag. Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights – and the money paid out in fees.
Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.
People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis. .." Yuval Noah Hararri, Sapiens
Yes, that also means psychiatry functions on the level of fictional propositions and that mental disorders are a myth.
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