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> One can assume that the way to balance things out is to encourage the most
> aggressive to grab all they can and leave the rest to extinguish, or one
> might assume that there are a lot of good genes being destroyed (like
> endangered animals) by an economic system which does not reward people who
> are motivated by generosity, kindliness, quiescence. They're regarded as
> losers.
>
> Do wars winnow the weak, or do the survivors of war carry an intensified
> aggressiveness and viciousness into our gene pool?
The scene on Earth suffers from some arbitraries that upset the
wisdom of the laws of nature. Humans are not just animals, they are
animals with semi unconscious spirit beings entombed in them, spirits who
are forgetful of their immortal past, unaware or worse undesirous of their
immortal future, and implanted with subconscious violence and evil that is
unimaginable to the normal mind.
Worse the planet as a whole is owned, controlled and monitored by off
world civilizations that would prefer that we not find out about them.
Earth is sort of a Devil's Island of the stars and the people here are the
rejects of various intra galatic civilizations. The most artistic,
bright, free thinking, criminal and perverted are dumped here implanted
with the veil of forgetfulness, and internal conflicts between good and
evil that keep them fighting themselves so they will rise above a certain
level of 'uncivilization'.
So it's a weird mix and you gotta spot it to keep your even keel
about what's going on here.
Thus the people here can and do take even the best of things and make
them bad.
Animals in nature do not war with each other the way humans do,
although they do fight for territory and food when their paths cross.
Thus humans take a natural pro survival impulse and turn it into a planet
wide destructive force.
In most animal kingdoms, only 1 out of 10 born survive, so really
only the fittest of the very fit make it.
Without that agressiveness that you complain so bitterly about,
nothing would be alive.
But animals are not insane, and their agressiveness is channeled in
pro survival directions.
Animals are able to operate a balance of agressiveness and
quiescence that walks a natural middle path.
But now in the human world we are bent in making everyone survive
no matter what, so there is no selection any more except based on what
humans want rather than what is based on long turn survival of the
species. What humans want in general is not good for anyone,
including some of their autre-ended ideas of charity and nobility.
In particular the desire that all agressiveness be breeded out
of the gene pool is quite short sighted.
> To follow the analogy that aggressiveness is not necessarily the grandest
> virtue: Are humans earth's supreme beings because we compete with other
> species so well that 1/3 of the USA's plant species are endangered (NYT
> last month). Is earth enriched because elephants, wolves and wolverines
> are being shoved of the planet to make room for people?
The answer is clear. However the other extreme is just as
deadly, where everyone survives whether fit or not, and the least fit
get to breed more. The mathematics of this are inexorable.
Neither extremes of black and white are sane, they are not
nature's nor Buddha's middle path.
The problem of man's insanity is a serious one, I am merely
pointing out that the solution's being offered are being offered by
people who are themselves just as insane as those they fight, and by
swinging the pendulum of agressiveness as far in the other direction
as they can, they are setting themselves up for a fall of magnitude.
Homer
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