Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:39:55 -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: <20020904113306.I88455-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <3D756EB4.DE0179ED@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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? > > Either it's not a genetic trait, or the gene is recessive. > > Recessive genes do not get eliminated from the population, > because there is no evolutionary pressure on the bearers of > the genes, only on their offspring in which the genes are > expressed. Or possibly on your evolutionary theory, (I think Dave will appreciate this) those genes are necessary for the survival of the species. > > > 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"? > > Thus implying a state which cares not for individual members > has no rights? Exactly. > By that argument, we should not talk about the rights of the > individual, since individuals are made up of cells, yet do not > care for the rights of the individual cells of which they are > composed... and therefore have no rights. Fallacy of composition? Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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