[SA]
Would not betterness, as a central tenet, involve
a human being to want to be a part of this central
tenet, or have a human being believe that he/she is
thus logically this central tenet (for a central tenet
must work everywhere, right?), therefore a person may
begin to think they are this betterness. So, does
this mean others are NOT better, especially if they
don't realize this betterness on an intellectual
level? Wouldn't this leave room for arrogance, maybe?
[Krimel]
Betterness is a term best applied to the individual. I strive for
betterness. You strive for betterness. Even dmb strives ineffectively for
betterness. But evolution does not strive. It just happens. If there is
betterness involved it is you and I and dmb and who see it. It does not
exist in the world. It exists in our heads. Our individual determinations of
betterness may accurately reflect the future or not. They are nothing more
than our individual estimates of probabilities in the future. And in the
future others will judge the difference between our estimates of betterness
and their own.
We see betterness existing in the past based on our conceptions in the
present. It is most certainly not fundamental or essential to the workings
of the world. But the true nature of this Pollyanna nonsense is the
reluctance to even talk about worseness. One advocate of the betterness
principle once replied that if an asteroid smacked the earth, it would only
seem to be worseness. Ultimate betterness would be served in the end. This
is a view so vacuous as to be unworthy of discussion.
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