Which comes to the immensely frustrating lack of awareness he seems to have. He made that exact same argument when talking about will overcoming genes.
His example was if you took a bunch of spiders who became totally self aware and free willed to move beyond their genes, all the spiders would die out within the generation.
And then went right on to reiterate that humans had to move beyond their genes, after explaining in depth how it would rapidly destroy an organism that tried that!
He declares that humans are basically evil terminators, but then says it's an easy thing to move beyond and we can just choose not to be!?!?
Like, if we were a bunch of T-800s killing the humans for the good of skynet,
1) what is even the possibility of escaping our programmed task, and
2) why would we even want to? If I'm a T-800, killing humans is more or less fully in my self interest, and totally within my nature. Why would I even want to stop living up to my nature?
He seems to really make a lot of
1) factual, self evident thing, or at least reasonable thing.
2) ooga booga too
3) lefty crazyland utopianism.
He's definitely headstrong. I don't know, sometimes it also seems less courage and more fool hardiness. Like he's too arrogant and delusional to be as scared as he should be, which lessens the virtue of his heroism.
This is a man after all who went through evergreen, then moved to Portland, and wash absolutely shocked when things went to shit in portland, and seemed utterly in denial when Douglas Murray visited Portland in October and tried to impress upon him just how awful what was going on really was.
edited for spelling.