humankind is inherently good. TMBR.

They made a documentary about this point of view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx5n21zHPm8

But seriously, your original post could just as easily have stated "humankind is inherently bad", and your justification above would be just as valid.

... and as of now there's no way to tell the thoughts of other life forms, such as viruses and bacteria.

Sure there is, in the same way a vastly alien observer looking at us from a distance and over time would be able to discern our 'thoughts'. They don't need to share any of the same neurological processes with us to know how we interact with the rest of the universe. We breed, we innovate to fill ever finer survival niches, we consume, and we spread. The may be impressed at the innovations we come up with that let us breed and consume and spread more effectively, but it's unlikely they'd share your sentiment that our technology is inherently good. It's obviously something you, as a member of the swarm, enjoy and are proud of. But objectively it's no different to the little spikes a botfly larvae grows so that it can't be dislodged from the wound it burrows into your skin. We are a biological swarm, just like any other. A member of a locust swarm, say, may be forgiven for thinking, in whatever locust-y way she can think, that she is living in the best of times, that the world is full of grain made just for her, always will be, and that it is only right and just and good that she chew her way through whatever she can.

We are what we are. Attaching a superficial label like 'good' to a stupendously complex system is known as reductionism, and does nothing to help you understand your place in it. You're essentially saying "yeah, the world is full of pain, suffering and injustice, but none of any of that yucky stuff is touching me or mine, so yay! microwave popcorn!"

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