I like Doctor Who's view on humans. We're really nothing special, compared to other species out there. The Doctor just hangs around them because "I just think they're neat!"

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doctor Who is mine as well.

Bill : Why do you put up with us, then?

The Doctor : In amongst seven billion, there's someone like you. That's why I put up with the rest of them.

[–] slashasdf@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Doctor: Who's she?
Kazran Sardick: Nobody important.
The Doctor: Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also the Doctor: [whilst scanning Donna Noble with the sonic screwdriver] It's weird... you're not special; you're not powerful; you're not connected; you're not clever; you're not important...

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[–] lasagna@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's about the same reason why Vulcans got attached to us. They're a curious species. They didn't necessarily expect gain other than to satisfy their curiosity. They'd probably have respected lab rats about as much as they respected humans.

But I generally disagree with the OP above you. As far as observations go, the universe seems like a rather lonely place. I don't think a lot of science fiction is far off. Either from a civilisation looking to make friends or slaves. Both are sensible plots. The uselessness of humanity portrayed in that post seems incorrect and highly pessimistic. Evidence of that is easy enough to find just by looking at the rest of our solar system. We may be far from perfect but for something like us and all other life on earth to be born out of such chaos seems to beat the odds and so far we have no evidence of otherwise.

With that said, I don't think humans will ever reach a state of perfection. I don't think our universe allows that. Maybe outside our universe.