You know, ever since the first man picked up a rock and found that it made a really good weapon, humans have always seemed to advance in weapons before anything else.
I mean, mankind has all kinds of brilliant ideas, like the land mind that you step on and it pops up and blows your head off. (bouncing betty)
The FAE bomb, a wonderful device which is basically a huge propane tank that is dropped out the back of a cargo plane, and it it is set to vent all 10000 gallons of propane at a specific point above ground. Then a little bomb goes off and....
Everything for a 3 mile radius is flattened, or reduced to red smears in the dust. Who needs nukes now, a few dozen of these things, and you basically clear the town of the enemy AND get it ready for reconstruction.
Great doctors eradicated small pox, BUT we kept some samples of the virus 'just in case." Just in case of what?
Or, lets look at interpersonal relationships.
Okay, woman meets man who seems nice, man turns out to be an abusive SOB, woman wont leave said male. Police called to stop big fight, cop wrestles man to ground, woman shoots cop.
Or automobiles
Gas is over 3 bucks a gallon, and what are people still buying? SUV's that suck gas like crazy.
Another thing about cars, some of these car companies have made cars that will go over two hundred miles an hour....
Where in the United States could you even think about driving that fast?
Humans are remarkable creatures with really bad priorities.
We should think of the hungry, or the hurting, or the lonely...
Not how can we more efficiently kill someone. Gee the army taught me to do that, quite well actually. I have just reached a point in my life where it is obvious that unless we as a race change, humans are not long for this world, or the universe.
