A Fallacious Misanthropy

Because some humans oppress other humans, exploit the environment, or perhaps even just inconvenience others without irrationality and injustice being a part of this, there are people who like to say that humans, as opposed to select individuals, deserve to die or do not deserve to exist.  These misanthropists talk as if and seemingly believe that humans inescapably or without exception share the same traits and are, when they need to abandon some falsehood, assumption, or injustice, equally unwilling to change for the better.  At most, only certain people would deserve this kind of hostility since people are individuals that all can be better than the worst of humanity or even its less severe irrationalists and evildoers only they choose so.

One person's ideological, behavioral, and psychological standing does not necessitate that others share in their positive or negative characteristics, so it can only be irrational to stereotype humans.  What someone does is of no relevance to whether someone else does the same thing; this is also true of belief and motivation as well.  That people can be selfish, cruel, or generally irrational does not mean that they are or must be.  This is in every instance a voluntary thing, for these traits are ones that each respective person can submit to or resist--if they are attracted to these things at all--whether or not they even are being holistically rational in the process.

There is an additional layer of idiocy in the worldviews and beliefs of these misanthropists.  Because many people are fools, not because they could not have avoided this status, but because through apathy or intentionality they let themselves be irrational, they hate rationalistic misanthropy, the valid reaction of loathing not just irrational epistemology and false ideas, but the people who do not care enough about the only things that could matter (logic is at the heart of all things, so if anything matters, logic must matter first, and then if moral obligations exist, they matter by default) to embrace fallacies, assumptions, and coldness towards the truth.  Hate people on rationalistic grounds, and they tend to be distressed or to hate you despite they themselves choosing to be the fools.  Hate people for fallacious grounds, and this form of misanthropy is strangle treated as if it is more acceptable in broad society.

The reason is obvious: most people are far from rationalism and hatred of irrationalism would bring attention to their own stupidity.  Since they likely do not want to be hated, rationalistic misanthropy is shunned and feared, not to mention thoroughly misunderstood.  However, hating general humanity for environmentalist or subjectivist reasons is not exactly unpopular at the moment, despite not all people having to do with the fallacious reasons why these misanthropists hate the species, and despite the fact that even people who do the things they hate did not do so because they are people (but because they chose to).  This is why irrationalists might resent selective misanthropy based on the genuine stupidity, philosophical apathy, hypocrisy, and injustices of the typical person, all while holding to an preference-rooted and slanderous kind of misanthropy.

There is such a thing as fallacious misanthropy, and it is sometimes treated as if it is actually rational and just when it is impossible for this to be the case.  It is based in assumptions and anti-individualism.  Rationalistic misanthropy, which many misrepresent or fear in all likelihood because they might partly realize they are the rightful target of such hatred, is not about slandering anyone, nor does it involve the bias of thinking someone must have little to no value simply because they are human.  Even more asinine is that its opponents just assume that the things all people supposedly do to merit hatred are evil based on conscience, preference, or societal trends.  Even if some of their premises were correct, this would not be knowable, and so they could not be justified in believing such things because they could not logically prove them.  Rationalistic misanthropists, unlike them, are on the side of the necessary truths of reason and all of the metaphysical and epistemological truths contained therein.