Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:50:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020903133932.W66978-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <3D707754.1981EA36@mindspring.com>
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >> The ones that break out and forcibly reproduce are the best suited to > > >> survival in hostile environments. By definition even. > > > > > > Nature seems to vote against that one. > > > > How so? > > By evolving creatures who imprison or kill peers who engage in > forcible reproductive acts, thereby ensuring their removal from > the gene pool. Have either of you ever wondered why, over billions of years, evolution hasn't made these problems irrelevant? I mean, how many billions of years do we need to wait for evolution to kick in and remove the miscreants? > A society no more cares for its individual members than you > care for the individual cells which make up your body. Why then all the talk about "the rights of the state"? Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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