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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (3037)	11/1/2000 6:55:26 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

for individuals, the workings of evolution has been --is-- horribly cruel. But that is evolving to a kinder proposition, isn't it, E? We looked at that issue, briefly, way back in this thread. We looked at how collective humanity (in spite of the many exceptions) is now going out of its way to cure and save organisms outside of the human race, and also members of the human race that would not have survived in an older evolutionary context. Why is survival of the unfit now a part of evolutionary reality? What has evolved in the human spirit or consciousness that now moves us to preserve our weakest members? Likewise, what do beauty, and other abstracts, have to do with survival of the species. Obviously, something. The last question of your post is a huge one. Something we all ought to think about.

To: E who wrote (3037)	11/1/2000 9:58:18 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The huge question that hangs over everything is how human nature and free enterprise are going to respond to the global environmental crisis in a world in which resources are so unevenly distributed. One word: EDUCATION. What else can do it? Every human born ought to have food, clothing, and a place to live. This is not a right, but it ought to be a democratic social contract or agreement existing worldwide. Then there is education. The single most important goal for all. But who is to teach, and what is to be taught? These are the age old questions. Part of the social/democratic agreement should be that children are taught the co-dependence that exists between all people and their environment, and the dependence we all have upon the good will and the cooperation of all others. In other words, a human/ecological ethic ought to take pre-eminence in our school system, from the earliest years on. Socialism? NO. Sociable behaviour based on self interest? Yes. If people understood the interdependence of all people and all life, they could act rationally.