Unfortunately I am not entirely sure if natural selection applies to us humans right now, or in the last couple of centuries. Maybe in the near future. Our population has exploded over the last decade to 7 billion people, which is bound to create some competition. However, natural selection can very simply be reduced to an organisms ability to successfully reproduce viable offspring. Wealthy people, and those in political power (because they are wealthy enough to have a campaign, not because they are the best of us) are the most likely to survive any of the likely future events we as a species will face. We somewhat cheat natural selection because through our technology and medicine we can skirt viability, and negative mutations that would be weeded out over time in nature are carried genetically. If morals were not learned, and were inherent as you suggested than they too could mutate, and slowly over time more viable morals would become the dominant allele within us. For an example as how that isn't possible we can look at our post modern era. We live in a world with a wealth of science and technology, and without it our lives as we know it would cease to function. However it's more predominant for people to believe in pseudoscience, superstition, and religion. This is because we pass down these ideologies readily through dominant social institutions. How we think right now is actually harming our planet, our closed system, but our "old" ideas are not giving way to our new ideas. We are very much indoctrinated by ideas.
Be a scientist. It's not about memorizing thousands of random facts, it's about curiosity. It's about exploring your ideas through the scientific method, asking questions. It's okay if you don't find an answer, it's okay if you get it wrong.
This is a dramatic video, but here is a great example of an event that happened during many of our parent's lifetimes that was so profound that it fuelled our economy, our post secondary enrolment, but in the end we reverted back to our old ways of thinking.
I have a neutral standpoint when it comes to Anonymous. When they threatened Sony and Nintendo for supporting SOPA, I was on their side because it was a valid reason. The PSN attack last year was not valid enough to warrant shutting down an entire network of gamers for 2 months.
In my opinion, if they have a valid reason to use their influence, then I'm fine with it. However, if its an invalid reason such as just simply being prevented from jailbreaking a console. (One of the primary reasons why Anonymous hacked PSN.), then I am wholeheartedly against it.
"We are ancient, forgotten warriors in a modern world."- Ben Yoshira, protagonist of my KH fanfiction, Twilight's Call.
@ Bexn. Anonymous wasn't the group that brought PSN down for 2 months. They did it for 2 weeks, the network went back up for a couple of days, then Lulzsec took it down for 2 months.
(March 19, 2012 01:40:31 PM)Aaron Wrote: @ Bexn. Anonymous wasn't the group that brought PSN down for 2 months. They did it for 2 weeks, the network went back up for a couple of days, then Lulzsec took it down for 2 months.
Right. Why do I continue to forget that...?
"We are ancient, forgotten warriors in a modern world."- Ben Yoshira, protagonist of my KH fanfiction, Twilight's Call.
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