Simon,
i think i was a little unclear with that last post. anyway, let me try and
explain myself a little bit better. last year i went on a school trip to
europe and while a friend and i were talking (right after returning from the
Black Forest), he said something pretty intelligent, which was surprising
because it was the same kid who bought me a german porno mag for my 17th
birthday there. anyway, what he said was that every biological species had
developed some means of survival- for example, beavers have big teeth to
carve wood and make dams, etc. and eagles have extremely acute vision in
order to spot prey. How they were brought about is what i guess is being
argued about now, but i think the Darwinian view holds that the members of
the species without the specific trait that ensured their survival simply
died off and the ones with the specific trait lived to reproduce. So, what
do humans have to ensure the continuity of our species? intellect. We can
make rational decisions based on intelligence. it's not necessarily an
acquired sense of right and wrong (eg shocking a lab rat in order to
condition its decision making processes), but an innate ability to drive us
towards higher Quality situations. It reaches past biological Quality
decisions: people do good for the good of society, or (the highest form of
good in my opinion) they do good for the sake of doing good. That falls
under intellectual Quality, the highest Quality, as does doing good for the
sake of God or for the sake of any other idea. I see the whole beetle
existence simply as a struggle for survival at the biological level, knowing
nothing of anything higher.
rasheed
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