reply to post by Amaterasu
We also don't understand gravity, nor quantum mechanics. Should we as a species just not bother with those things?
See how that's a bad idea?
Just because it can't know, doesn't mean it doesn't have rights.
In fact, the instinct to live is the causality for the need of rights. It is the consensus of the human species that we would rather live than die.
And in order to continue their rule, leaders have created the concept of rights and privileges in order to appease to this consensus. Once again, I am
fairly certain our ne'er relatives homo erects had no ability to conceptualize the idea of rights, and yet I'm fairly sure they all agreed it was a
good idea not to rape and pillage because even though at that level of evolution mankind had no ability to conceptualize the idea of rights, he lived
by them knowing they were a wise idea.
We have always been noble, swayed by Out hearts. Only when the energy flow was inefficient was money created to account for it, and the evil slipped
in as some fell in love with it and abandoned the Laws in favor of profit.
No actually. For there are many areas and many times in this Earth when man had plenty, and yet still had money and evil and no nobility. I can think
of the time of the Minoans. When they crashed, the Mycenaean and Dorians, both got their lovely hands on the cities, but had no capacity to rule them.
Minoans had plenty. Their new masters had plenty. Yet still, the uncivilized rulers chose to be brutal.
No, humanity has only ever been noble when he tries. As to being swayed by our hearts? This is not noble. This is weakness of self. You should never
be swayed by your heart unless your mind gives you an ok on the logic backing it.
edit on 26-8-2011 by Gorman91 because: le
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edit on 26-8-2011 by Gorman91 because: le spelling
