Humanity is a pathetic species. We must reform our society.

I am going to start this the same way I normally do. Let us review the resolution at hand ,and what my adversary must do to win. Resolution - Humanity is a pathetic species. We must reform our society. I want to focus on the first part of this because it is a dual resolution. If I can disprove the first part of this, that humanity is a pathetic species, negating the second part will not be needed. The resolution is stating that we must reform because we are pathetic, so if I can show we are not pathetic I have won this debate. My adversary has the BOP and must meet both ends of the resolution. He must show that we are pathetic and that we must reform our ways. Again all I must do is provide reasonable doubt and show reasons why we are not pathetic and this debate goes in my favor.The key word I want to focus on is pathetic. The context of the word and how it is displayed in the resolution is as follows. Pathetic - pitifully inferior or inadequate[1]Now I am going to jump into some contentionsPathetic in comparison to who?When we are looking at the fact that we are pathetic, the next thing we must ask is how and why? It is saying we are inferior but there is no way this can be the case. There is nothing we could be inferior too. Humans are at the top of almost every food chain in every environment [2]. By food chain in this regard I am referring to predator capabilities. If you look at studies we as humans actually rank in the middle but this is because of the amount of killing that is done and other things that factor into it. I am referring to our ability to kill and what we can kill. This is primarily due to our intelligence and brain. "The most distinguishing feature of Homo sapiens is the ability to think intelligently, which developed in accordance with its impressive nervous system. While almost all animals have brains, the human brain is unique in several respects. Compared to that of other species, the human brain is extremely large relative to body mass, and it consumes roughly 25 percent of the glucose metabolized by the body and 15 percent of the oxygen (Clark et al., 1999). All things considered, the human brain is one of the most complex biological systems ever to have evolved on Earth[3]."Evolution compared to other species. Compared to other species we have evolved to a different level. Since our common ancestors or possible ancestor Sahelanthropus tchadensis roamed the earth around 7 million years ago, our level of speciation has far outweighed that of other species. We are the only species that can reflect and think on our actions, and the only one on earth to advance to a level that far surpassed other species. We have worked our way up over the years. All the way back to learning what fire was, up unto modern science where we could go into outer space. We have the capability to wipe a country off the face of the earth with modern technology. So saying we are pathetic is a drastic illusion my adversary has conceived. There is no species on earth that can even compare to us, so when he says we are pathetic there is really nothing to compare us too. We are not pathetic, we are at the top of the world. Survival of the fittest. Darwins law is a great way for us to see how we got here. Essentially this is a principle saying that species adapt and change by natural selection with the best suited mutations becoming dominant[4]. This goes off my other argument but when compared to other species we are extremely dominant. We control almost all the known earth, with no other species posing a threat to us. The only threat we have is ourselves and even then we are still at the top of world. No species has even came close to adapting to the level we have achieved. AliensAny argument or statement my adversary brings up about this is irrelevant. He mentioned this in his opening round but this is so off topic ,because there is nothing empirical to show they exist. Therefore we can no compare our self to something that has no observable proprieties. ConclusionWe are definitely not pathetic. I have shown how and why we are not inferior as a species. [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com...[2] http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu...[3] http://fubini.swarthmore.edu...[4] http://www.phrases.org.uk...