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 What will be our downfall? (12)

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What will be our downfall?

What will end us? Will it be ourselves that destroys everything?

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Artificial Intelligence.

flewk(1193) Clarified
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You should participate in this debate.

Hate to be that guy but global warming will almost certainly be our downfall. We're pretty much past the point where it can be fixed, and by the time we make changes parts of the world will be flooded, billions may die, and we're pretty much screwed.

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Lack of tolerance for others. Lack of understanding of others. Lack of willingness to look past what bothers us about others.

Jace(5222) Clarified
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Should there be limits to our tolerance though? Can we actually overcome our limitations to truly understand others, or is that actually even necessary to tolerance and co-existence?

addltd(5144) Clarified
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While we don't need to overcome our limitations to exhibit tolerance and co-existence, if there is no understanding someone will eventually stop blindly tolerating the co-existence and then there will be trouble.

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The conservative movement. Conservacrites allow bullying and when the target stands up for themselves, they blame the victim.

Jace(5222) Disputed
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We have far more critical downfalls than American political conservatism. Besides which, American political liberalism is not such considerable improvement really.

Narrow-mindness and double-standards of living which every metropolitan guy pursue will be the ultimate downfall

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The common delusions borne from the emergence of our consciousness... the artifices of significance, meaning, free will, morality, etc.

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Our nation will most likely not fall directly to outside attacks of any sort. At the moment we remain militarily powerful enough to defeat any other nation. Our cyber vulnerability will not be our undoing, because we are not any more vulnerable than our enemies.

Our potential for continued drift from the things that make us strong will most likely be our undoing. Our potential for electing leaders and lawmakers who lead us away from the principles of governance written into our constitution, remains our greatest enemy. Divide and conquer, will end us, unless we find another great leader to unite us.

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Our downfall is the day where anything and everything is accepted. The day where rules aren't applied and people can do what they like because it's "their right" and "they're just being themselves". The day where pedophilia and bestiality will be legal (practically already are) and people can do what they like because "we can't judge them". That will be our downfall.

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The day where pedophilia and bestiality will be legal (practically already are) and people can do what they like because "we can't judge them". That will be our downfall.

As much as I want to address all of this, I first have to ask: how are pedophilia and bestiality "practically" already legal, when they are less acceptable (socially and legally) now than they have been at any point in Western history?

Humans will destroy the Earth with nuclear war. It's so sad.

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I have no idea what will lead to the downfall of humanity.

I know it won't be global warming (at least not the trendy one), nuclear war, AI, conservative movement, "a day where anything and everything is accepted", lack of tolerance/understanding, or whatever Jace said.