It’s Eyes Were Void Of Empathy

Imagine for a second that we, the species, live on for a very long time. That we survive long enough to where we can control and alter most of our basic existential setup as humans.

Be it that we alter our biology and our brains, upload our minds into machines or give birth to entire new sentience in the form or AI.

It’s easy to think of some things that we would change.

Ageing is popular. Getting rid of diseases. Strenghening our bodies in general, perhaps so that we could walk freely in hostile environments, swim in emtpty space. We’d certainly make our selves smarter or at the very least to have immense memory capacity.

But what are the things that really trouble us?

What do we dread?

Those of us unfortunate to experience the worst of it know all to well that it isn’t death. We fear that badly but if you fear nothing worse than dissapearing you are among the lucky.

While to some religious perspectives they can be the same. An afterlife in hell that is. Be that what it may in either case we fear eternal agony and…

We fear fear it self as anyone with severe anxieties could tell you.

What a dream it would be if at some time in the far future we can all say “no more!”.

Never again shall a human suffer severe fear or pain and agony. If we could remove the entire function or put in ‘safe word’ where every person could just turn the emotion off…

Wouldn’t we?

Let’s say that we did.

Years pass and we become convenient. Soft to ever lesser pain. Eventually just minor inconveniances bother us immensly and we grow acustom to almost always having it turned off.

Far far into the future…

Our entire species has forgotten. We no longer remember what pain or fear is. It is no longer a concept we understand or consider.

We may never do this. Or it may be so far off that it wouldn’t concern you or me.

But when they come

The others.

Those that did it before us.

When you stare into their emotionless black eyes on a face from an alien world and you can not see a glimmer of empathy. Be very affraid!

For one that does not even know it can hurt you, canot even imagine what it is to suffer, is one worthy of dread!