Though I cannot prove it, I believe that the good recognize good within the evil..and what I mean is that what is good always stops short of total victory because the good recognizes the fight against evil is what brings out the best in all who undertake it.
Were evil to perish what would happen to the good? I think decay would follow.
Like nature, what makes us strong is competition.
Maybe I'm wrong though. And it doesn't rule out the possibility like you wrote, that one day, we, as a race, will achieve total victory.
Once we defeat one enemy, we can move on to the next one. We deserve a more worthy adversary than the one we currently have. Maybe even one worthy of respect. Maybe we'll run in to a super-advanced society, in a distant solar system: and to them, we'll be the stupid monkeys going around fucking shit up. Then we'll be the bad guy and have to either evolve, adapt, or perish.
I don't know about you: but I wanna know what kind of Boss Battle is waiting for us on the next level.
The adversary we have is more than we seem to be able to currently handle.
Maybe we make it to the stars one day. We'll see.
We can't handle them because we are currently muzzling ourselves. Just think of that. The straw that matters is on its way down. Once the back breaks, the Boogaloo starts. Unironically.
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