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

To: E who wrote (52555)	8/21/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

As I see it the central issue here is - do we use force to propagate the human race, when only two humans are left. Selfishness is not the only reason someone might not wish to undertake repopulating the Earth. After all, the MOST selfish thing we can do is have a zillion babies- thereby gratifying our animal desire to reproduce ourselves to the maximum. So I think it is actually unselfish not to wish to reproduce (at least as I define selfish, you may define it differently). I can think of hundreds of reasons someone might not wish to undertake this task. The use of force is problematic only where you have law and morality- and since I personally think law and morality come from society then this society of two would determine what is moral, and what is not. Of course when they (these two survivors) are in conflict, I would choose to go with the golden rule- but lots of societies do not, and they (the two survivors), in their new society need not choose that. Does that make those societies which choose ways I would consider brutish and, for lack of a better word immoral (but I mean immoral only to me, not in any absolute sense) "wrong" or "sinful" or "morally reprehensible" - not in my opinion- it just makes them different. Therefore it would seem to me that what we- on feelies think- is really irrelevant- since it is the same as judging whether the habits of headhunters are "moral". Their morality has to be judged in their context- and the two people left on Earth would have to work out their own new morality- and it would depend to a great extent on what kinds of people those two people were. If the man decided to rape the woman and start a society- assuming she survived childbirth and the children survived, that society could very well have a morality where rape was acceptable. That is inconsistent with my personal ethics, but I can imagine a society in which it would be acceptable.