On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:28:11 GMT
theBeaver wrote:

The human instinct to expand our territory and breed is not something
that should be indulged. Man's biggest problem is his inclination to
**** in his own house, thinking, instinctively, that territorial
expansion or future miracles will save him. It is the nature of
things that unbridled ambition speeds its own end, and if humans
cannot reign in their own animal urges by reason, we deserve to go
nowhere. To hear this primitive impulse touted as a laudable goal
that's supposed to inspire me with pride in my species disgusts me.
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Have you read _The Toolmaker Koan_ by John McLoughlin?

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"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and
further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."
-- Albert Schweitzer