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> Reggie Bautista schreef:
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> > 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.
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> 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)
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> Also just a thought.
Place it in this perspective. The enemy is an alien race intent on wiping us
out. You now remove all politicalness from the equation. It becomes very
clear what has to be done to save your "Genes".
It is politics that brings distaste to the idea of sending your children to
fight in a war. It would have to be some pretty awesome politics to make me
want my child to be put in harms way for a cause.
Nerd From Hell
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> Sonja
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