do we deserve to perish in a nuclear holocaust?

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I agree.

I'd just like to be able to succeed and do something positive with my life before it's all over. Fat chance anyway. As a whole people are only bad. I can't live, compete or work with them. But I do enjoy the quiet, beauty nature has to offer, though it does get lonely. On my own I can't accomplish much anyway. Maybe you're right. Nuke it!

Nonsense. I value your life as much as I value my own.

Someone who needs to be evaluated for incarceration.

To assume that the only solution to human brutality and disregard for decent behavior is to give up entirely and destroy the human race is an interesting viewpoint for someone who claims to be devoted to problem solving. It looks to me as if he has given up totally on an extremely interesting and challenging problem. No doubt it is tough and the failures of past attempts at even a partial solution have, so far, failed. But, of course, even the best problem solvers eventually meet a problem beyond them. It seems the Bible recounts that God, at times, also resorted to total destruction as the only solution for most of the human race except for a favored few. God (mythical or otherwise) seems to have been a bit more optimistic than chever.

Considering the vindictive brutal behavior of a large sector of humanity towards any alien species that might reveal itself to be even equal, much less, superior to humans, do you believe that a superior species living amongst humanity would be so foolish as to reveal itself? How do you know that they are not right now part of the current scene? If they are a human mutation they might not be obvious.

I use the term "alien" to mean radically different, not extra-terrestrial. Sentient robots would, of course, be designed by humans and naturally have quite human characteristics but if designed by the military complex of each country it is most likely that they will be fighting machines with nationalistic motivations. Perhaps superior to human soldiers, but with many of the destructive characteristics of their creators. I was proposing that humans themselves contain mutant characteristics at present time that might not have been detected. It is not impossible, and a nuclear war by stupid leaders would eliminate this valuable potential.

For an interesting conjecture of future developments aside from the rather clumsy idea of robots, take a look at the SF novel "Accelerando" by Charles Stross.