Archive for September 12th, 2008

Dehumanisation

Warning: Extremely inhumane arguments below.

“Control your emotion or it will control you”

The greatest parade towards a new humanity is haunting this earth – The parade towards the emancipation of humans from their emotions.

Our human body is weak, it is greatly influenced by changes from the external environment. Many philosophers have postulated that we often make decisions based on our emotion and not pure rationale reasoning. This poses a threat to humanity, these emotions can lead to negative behaviour which in turn has a negative concussion on humanity itself. Living in a dynamic ecosystem requires each and everyone of us to carry out our niche or basic role in society. Unfortunately, humans are often hindered by the fact of being ‘human’ such as being lazy, feeling sleepy or being not in the mood.

Hence, something must be done to the human race – the removal of certain sense of emotion from all human beings. Sense of emotions that are targeted to be removed are negative emotions that will not bring any benefit to the human race as a whole such as apathy, grief, fear, hatred, shame, blame, jealousy, regret, resentment, anger and hostility. Imagine how great life will be without them.

With the stumbling block removed, humans of the world can live together in harmony and need not worry about life. Without negative emotions and laziness, humans would be highly efficient and productive in their work which will bring about a slippery slope that will bring betterment to the economy, society and humanity. With all these advantages, how then can one argue that the extirpation of human emotions is wrong?

One may argue that human emotion makes human life worth living. Now allow us to pose a simple question: do you like to feel negative emotion? Because of negative emotions, people commit crime, people rape, people commit suicide so on and so forth. Our goal here is to cleanse the human race of these evil deeds and we strive to achieve that goal through transhumanisation.

Would you rather be in the servitude of the external environment?