Playing God.

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Originally Posted by ZenitYerkes

And greed, and egoism, and altruism as well,... They're all basic instincts, present in every single animal behavior. Territorial instinct, or defending your sons or your family from an external aggressor; for example.

But what makes us different from animals is that we can control our behavior. Hence why we don't jump on of the first good-looking female we find.

If we are really human beings, we should be able to prioritize what's good for all before our interests. Impose the "them" before the "I". If not, humanity will be doomed. And this planet with it.

Unfortunately, some do act as a bunch of apes.

Be sure not to get behaviour mixed up with inherant nature. We could change, we could stop. But the effort required to overcome such endowed instincts would be prohibitive if applying the change to the entire human race. We were never designed to become a global civilization as large as the current one, nor to cope with the amount of technology we can utilize today. That's where the problems start to crop up.