Caldari Ghost wrote...
Auld Wulf wrote...
What I don't get is why they keep pushing the Synthesis-as-evil thing when it's their problem that they don't get it. Clearly it can be perceived in another way, because many other people do, and there's a mountain of information regarding that in the Synthesis compendium. As I've said before, to see anything evil in Synthesis reflects upon the person, not upon the story.
I think to see evil you have to want to see evil, in which case you tend to see evil with abortion clinics, or smartphones, or computers, or the Internet, or any other technology which has uplifted us above base animals. I mean, the very infrastructure we've created as a society has uplifted us beyond what an animal is capable of -- as I've pointed out, we can phone for medics to come and save a life, we are far above animals because of what we can create.
One day we'll be able to create Synthesis. As I've said, I just see Synthesis as a positive, optimistic, poetic look at what humanity can be if we just stop all the fighting and killing long enough to create a strong infrastructure of understanding. For some people, that's unimaginable, because they might revel in the conflict, and the evils, and the horrors, but I don't. I actually like where our advancements are taking us. I want to think we have the capacity to become something better.
Synthesis is showing us the 'something better,' but some people see Synthesis as a horror because people aren't running around and killing each other. Personally, I see that as kind of screwed up.
where is that "
yeeeaahhhhhh" soundclip when you need it?
Technology? Let's back up and get the tech out of the equation...... it is not 'technology' that makes us awesome. Technology is a symptom of a larger afflication........ oppoable thumbs being part of that, but ultimately what humans do that makes us outcompete other species is that we have the ability to think our way around problems. It's the brain that is the root cause of our invention of technology that began the minute a caveman picked up two sticks and rubbed them really hard to make fire.
But it's more than the brain, it's the ambition to keep building. The human race eventually outcompeted just about everything on the planet, (on the condition that a human refuses to compete on the terms of the competitor. Naked Human vs naked lion? Lion wins. Naked human, up a tree, with a rifle while lion prowls around thinking, 'oooooh, breakfast!' Human wins.) So now that humans can compete on levels above what the natural world has to offer, what is left to compete with?
Each other.
Synthesis, being a great leveler, is not a reason to stop warfare. If anything, it will increase competition. If all life is now synthesised life then it has a commonality that mean's pests and diseases that were once confined to one speices can now cross travel to other species. A disease that hit's a crop now has the potential to travel across to a similar crop, say Dextrose based, that is no longer dextrose based, find similar attachment points to infect that crop and suddenly, due to a reduction in diversity, you lose two crops instead of one.
Medical research would have to be stepped up to find a way to tackle how to stop a potential wave of increased susceptability to diseases that aliens never had to adapt to, being immune thanks to significant differences to their physiology. Meanwhile, while R&D struggles to play catach up, we have the potential for a galaxy wide famine if quarantine fails and a synthesised disease makes it through that was previously, not compatible, but now is as all life has the same DNA.
The short of it, life had adpated and found a balance without synthesis. Synthesis is throwing all that up in the air and trying to sort out the mess that comes after.
I mean..... come on! Synththesis is the solution to Org's and Synth's getting along ONLY!!! The Cat had one problem to solve, how to stop both sides killing each other. It was not tasked to stop both sides from killing each other and....<insert secondary objective here>. Which in this case is to maintain diversity of life so that if a species fails for what ever reason, that reason does not take out all species as diveristy of life will have allowed some species greater resistance to whatever comes along.
The exception to this is the Reaper. A reaper is a military force, not a natural disaster. It exists to hunt.
Retour en haut
) it is more about the denying the ppl the choice to do it. when you choose it you are no better then the catalyst. not in the sense that you are turning everyone into a reaper but you are taking away choice.forcing it on ppl because it is "good" for them. the same thing the catalyst did. It may be for the better but forcing it on the entire galaxy is not exactly right , but to each their own 
and be sad i will 
