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To: Father Terrence who wrote (21675)	5/28/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<If perfect communism could exist the ant colony would be a noble model to emulate -- but not for Man with higher abilities -- that's why communism can never succeed long-term -- it is against Man's nature. You may long to be a drone bee, but frankly, I do not. Until and unless some alien race comes along to prove differently, Man is the supreme race on this planet. We are the Masters; we are the gods of all we survey. When we have conquered DNA and the creation of Life itself, conquered the stars and opened up doorways to actual "other realities" we will have still just begun to scratch the surface of our powers -- the power of the Mind. The child's play that so many are blinded by in this Century does little but pass the time between birth and the grave. These issues that seem enormous are actually petty and much more easily resolved if politics were taken out of it. The morality of the tribe is an oxymoron. Individuals who subjugate their rational self-interests to the will of the mob are dupes, robots, parrots or good little ants.>> Terrence, your post seems to conveniently obscure the fact that man is a social animal, and survives to the extent he remembers this, in my opinion. For example, if everyone is selfish and pollutes, rapes and pillages because there is an assumed right to do this, the earth will be ruined. You HOPE that sending people into space is the answer, but there is absolutely no guarantee this will work. I think we forget that among the earliest archaeological record we can find of man, there are elderly and crippled people whose skeletal remains reveal clearly that they could not fend for themselves, and were cared for by those who loved them. Obviously, in our instincts there is some rudimentary sense of humanity and compassion, perhaps a sense as well that the old, even the physically helpless old, provide wisdom that benefits the entire group. The Neanderthals may have looked a little rough, but buried their dead with flowers, just like we do, indicating full humanity and reverence for departed loved ones. Can you tell me why "morality of the tribe" is an oxymoron? It seems to me that we would be much better off with this kind of morality in place, if you are talking about survival.