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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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Honestly Dr.manhattan was kinda dumb. "Oh I need to stop humanity from nuking itself" meanwhile I demonstrate easy ability to travel to other planets. Meaning I coooooooould of made humanity interplanetary, which would greatly reduce the likelihood of any humanity killing apocalypse.
So I'd get human colonies on the Moon, Mars and maybe Venus. Then focus on unfucking the Earths biosphere. Then focus on eliminating world hunger and bringing a higher standard of living to all mankind.
Then I'd fuck off to space and let humanity kind figure it out knowing they proooooobably won't kill themselves anymore.
Doctor Manhattan's ability to save the human race wasn't the issue. He was basically a god. It was his willingness. He didn't feel the need to stop humanity doing anything:
They're unquantifiable to us. Manhattan had a brain the size of a planet; certainly he could have answered the riddle of "what defines life." That part bothered me.
But you're right, his problem was attitude.
I have no idea tmhow to quote things. But dude that last part is such a shit take. There's no structural difference between my phone as with a full charge and my phone without, why do I care, because it's fucking dead.
The point is he's so far beyond humanity that he doesn't care. He relates less with humans than you do with your phone.
If he just gave zero shits about humanity, then why did he kill Rorschach.
Do you really wanna make a species close to self annihilation multiplanetary though? It's probably pretty easy to nudge a few asteroids the wrong way given the right drive technology...so not sure space colonies would change the likelihood of doom.
I mean it wouldn't eliminate the likelihood it would just decrease it. And do I want an endangered species to become multiplanetary? Yeah kinda. We saw one of the best expansions and developments of culture and morals when there were still places to explore. Places for new cultures to form. If we can have that again given the current cultural climate, who knows what could happen.
You should ask the indigenous people of the places we explored about our culture and morals. Are you sure you're not confusing Star Trek with reality?