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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (50382)	8/9/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You sent this nice piece of writing to me in a PM, and I asked for permission to post it, and you gave it, but then I forgot, but now I remember, so here it is, all: The global warming issue throws one thing into sharp relief for me. That is that one of our highest moral principles as humans is to minimize suffering within the group. Self, family, tribe ... nation, species. It's a marker of our "evolution". And yet it is unnatural. Nature refines her creations through the suffering and failure of most individuals. We get to see the winners and the children of winners. It is astounding to me ... something I don't really understand ... that we would be so. I don't understand it, but I embrace it. While I can't argue with those who say that the continuation of mankind doesn't matter much outside the human perspective, there is to me a certain circularity to that quasi-profound insight. You and I are humans - we have families and friends and inexperienced celebrity pilots - and we want them to live and prosper. That too is nature. Human nature. And I'd really rather see us cheat Inhuman Nature by wresting the means of evolution from her aloof grasp.