Is humanity inherently good, evil or neutral?

[Captain_Nick]

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

 

[Amaris]

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Nah.

 

[RJDiogenes]

 

[Skellington]

This is where I bring up those experiments about mice with electrodes wired to their brains, who sat and stayed on the button that provided current/pleasure until they starved to death.

Assuming any of that's true. Sci-f ran with it and created "wireheads"

That word brings back memories of Karry Niven's Ringworld series.

Spoiler: The Ringworld Engineers.

Louis Wu was a wirehead at the beginning of the second novel, after someone zapped him remotely ("made my day") and made him an addict. Interestingly, this kind of addiction was openly tolerated as it tended to remove wireheads from the gene pool as they simply couldn't be arsed reproducing.