Reggie Bautista schreef:
> But don't members of a society have a responsibility to protect that society?
> Or at it's most basic level, doesn't it make evolutionary sense to protect
> your genes (in the form of
> your extended family) and your memes (in terms of your society at large) by
> any means necessary, even if it means that you will have to sacrifice your
> own life to ensure theirs? Once you've had kids, self-preservation is as
> much (or more) about protecting your family (physical family and social
> family) as (or than) about protecting yourself.
>
> Could "enforced responsibility" like conscription be viewed as forcing us to
> act on our own self-preservation instincts?
>
> Just a thought.
A really interesting thought. Selfpresarvation sounds like a good motive to get
involved in a war. But I do wonder if I'll gladly send my (grown up) child into
a warzone to protect the country after having spend years of effort to raise it.
In which case the basic level to protect your genes would be sacrificed to the
good of society..... I think I have to think about that for a while. :o)
Also just a thought.
Sonja
