Lots of that is barbaric, unethical and immoral. But that doesn't mean we aren't a highly intelligent species.
Yeah, it does. I was disputing intelligence, you took it further and added 'highly'....
What is it with the arrogance and hubris of our species?
I will reiterate, we cannot call ourselves intelligent all the time we are killing each other, killing every species on earth, many to extinction, and destroying the very planet and all the natural resources that gave us life.
We especially cannot call ourselves intelligent if out of all 8 billion of us, the one with the most money has used some of that to gain control of the government of the most powerful country on Earth and he being the one that is looking towards other planets for us to move to knowing full well we won't save the one we are on.
As I said, you all have a fecking low bar or a warped view on what you call intelligent.
Intelligence comes in many forms. Emotional intelligence being a form that many look down upon as weakness. Yet those with money or power are looked upon as being Uber intelligent.
We have it all it's just as a species we are too selfish, greedy, arrogant or weak to do the right things about it.
Also, we have humour, and irony. The peak of both being an Aussie telling us all how collectively smart we are.