Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: E who wrote (33169)	3/23/1999 4:20:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

If reproductive fidelity is virtuous (and I don't care to argue the point) there are many animals more virtuous than man. Geese are a good example. If faithfulness to a nonreproductive friend is a virtue (and I think its the greatest virtue of all) then the dog certainly ranks higher than man. There is some recent work that suggests that early domestication of the dog (I mean really early) helped Homo sapiens beat out Neanderthals. Maybe the first human word was "Come!" (no! no! to the dog!) If intensity of reproductive devotion is a virtue (and I am not sure it is) the male black widow spider is right in there slugging. I believe human virtues were created by people willfully, and transmitted culturally, not fixed by biological evolution and natural selection. Justice -- a great virtue -- is no where found in nature.