Chris In his book jurasic park, Michael Chrighton introduces a character named Malcolm who is a mathematician.
In it he makes many observations a couple that come to mind. He said "it's not save the planet, it's save mankind" In the whole scheme of thing, we can disappear, and this planet who has been around for a few million years, will recover in no time and do just fine. Second, it was a comment about the failure of complex systems. that the more complicated systems are, and the more they are interdependent, when disaster strikes, it's a major catastrophe. Did you know, that a according to NASA's own calculation, 1 in 100 shuttle mission will result in a disaster? So far the odds are about right. Yes Balance is the key. Take for example birthrates. In the old days, biology dictated that you had to reproduce or parish. Now with the advent of modern medicine, hygiene people are doing well. In fact they are doing TOO well. So in a way, man has interfered with the biological patterns with his good work and knowledge. Now comes the hard questions. Now that we have already interfered with natural selection, who gets to play judge, jury and executioner on both ends of the population spectrum. 1. Telling people that survival rates are good, and small families is a good idea. 2. Telling people that they have lived a good long life, and now it's time to go because now they are a burden and the system cannot afford to keep people around past the age of ( insert number here). When the Social security system was installed, they figured 70 years and you were gone. Plus all this expensive medical breakthroughs were not around. Tough questions and tougher answers. >[Chris] > Hello Khaled. > > Good Questions indeed, and it is not an easy thing to answer. But the main > thing is that in the centre of it all is MAN (boy, language is really > patriarchal isn't it?) and not God or Dynamic Quality. Because the way some > use DQ here one could just as easily exchange it with God and say that some > things have to be sacrificed for the sake of God or DQ. This kind of talk > is of the Lowest Quality to me. A question of weather some things have to be > sacrificed in order for mankind to work towards a Higher Quality existence > is a question rightly asked in my opinion. As for the answer I don't > know, but I do believe balance is the key. > > Regards > Chris > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
