What's the worst thing that ever happened?

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

When we came down from the trees.

 

[SubZeroCat]

Cheesypoof's threads.

 

[trabuquera]

The invention of agriculture.

Think about it: it led directly to
- Humans eating stuff they're not evolved for
- the beginnings of surplus hoarding, hence money and exchange economies and the beginning of social classes
- people being tied to a particular bit of land - hence feudalism, classism, nationalism
- backbreaking toil for whoever was the underdog in any human group
- ruin of the environment, species extinction
- earlier and increased fertility (i.e. breeding 'til you drop) for women
- formal concepts of marriage ('nuff sed!)

No wonder some social scientists call it the 'Great Leap Backward' in human evolution.

Plus side, however: bread. and rice. and barley. and pommes dauphinoise an' that.

 

[Alf Klein]

The invention of agriculture.

Think about it: it led directly to
- Humans eating stuff they're not evolved for
.

That's tosh. The ability to do agriculture and eat the stuff produced are evolutionary advantages. If eating this stuff caused people to drop dead before procreating, then, well I suppose there wouldn't be any agriculture.

 

[Nickster]

In recorded history, the Black Death of 1348-1350. A third of the population of Europe died.

 

[winterinmoscow]

I was going to write the Rwandan Genocide, but that's for more personal reasons. Anyway, I think genocide, any genocide, must rank as one of the worst things ever.

 

[snorbury]

I was going to write the Rwandan Genocide, but that's for more personal reasons. Anyway, I think genocide, any genocide, must rank as one of the worst things ever.

i was thinking that this was one of the worst things as well

also the reinstatement of the death penalty and state killings sends a terrible message, as do the reemergence of places such as Bagram and Guantanamo Abu Gharib