We're only fodder if you see war, famine, pestilence, and death as absolute, incontestable forces. You shouldn't accept those things in such a way. Ever.
Good job I don't.
And what I meant was that as human beings, we are naturally inclined to reproduce, to propogate the species, and so the more of it that is destroyed, the higher perceived need there is for reproduction to sustain humanity
That's true, but I can't see how that relates to us here and now. Humanity is in abundance.
and it just so happens that humanity, for many, is defined by objective principles such as government (look at China).
I'm unsure here. Are you talking about the one child policy? Which speaks for itself concerning overpopulation in China.
The last century saw more progression and masochism expressed in the human heart than the 17th and 18th century’s combined.
Concerning what was, or is, lying in the hearts of people I think can only ever be a valid opinion, and I still think that previous periods were relatively just as aggressive and devastating, this was the colonisation period after all.
Plus the two World Wars were in a way dictated by technology, and this peeked to such a level so that today we thankfully reframe from using such technological methods. Could you imagine what would have happened if such weapons were available in previous centuries.
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