Comment re: You arrogant humans (Score 1) 267
Yes, we are cogs in the evolutionary machine. We aren't the guardians of our little mudball. I agree with all of that just fine. But I part company with your opinion here:
You continually butt heads with the nature that made you, and rudely ignore her lessons. She knows you, better then you know yourselves. You breed like rabbits, and overrun her without asking permission. She gave you AIDS to keep you humble and to give you pause to contemplate your place in the scheme of things - and you think you can "engineer" yourselves a cure.
Evolution is brilliant. The strongest survive, and for at least the time being, here we are. It's no mistake that humans are intelligent. Intelligence seems to be helping our survival greatly.
If we really want to honor the nature that made us, we should do our best to survive. Do we need permission to increase our populaton? I thought that was our duty! Nature knows how to handle overpopulaton. She's still letting us grow; maybe we should believe her. Nature can always create mutated strands of diseases to circumvent our cures. True, we might not be able to handle every calamity she throws at us. But we certainly must try. Survival of the fittest only works when creatures make a genuine best effort towards survival.
Nature has created a creature with the ability to alter animals' DNA, make wild changes to the environment, and so forth. What happened here? Has nature been perfect in her wisdom for billions of years, but then she screwed up by allowing us to evolve?
It's more likely, I think, that this is the way she intended it. How is technology created by organic beings somehow seperate from the organic beings themselves? Bees make honeycombs, beavers make dams, and humans make genetic treatments for diseases. If we do succeed in creating an AIDS vaccine or cure, then IMO, it's a natural part of evolution.
You have strong opinions as to what we need to do to survive, to respect nature. And that's noble. But I take offense at the fact that you presume to speak for her. You're just as likely to be wrong about everything as the rest of us. We don't have to learn anything from nature. Nature is automatic. If a creature is wrong, it is removed. We should meddle. We should try to guide our own destiny. That's what humans do. If we're right, then we're right. If we're wrong, nature will let us know.
You continually butt heads with the nature that made you, and rudely ignore her lessons. She knows you, better then you know yourselves. You breed like rabbits, and overrun her without asking permission. She gave you AIDS to keep you humble and to give you pause to contemplate your place in the scheme of things - and you think you can "engineer" yourselves a cure.
Evolution is brilliant. The strongest survive, and for at least the time being, here we are. It's no mistake that humans are intelligent. Intelligence seems to be helping our survival greatly.
If we really want to honor the nature that made us, we should do our best to survive. Do we need permission to increase our populaton? I thought that was our duty! Nature knows how to handle overpopulaton. She's still letting us grow; maybe we should believe her. Nature can always create mutated strands of diseases to circumvent our cures. True, we might not be able to handle every calamity she throws at us. But we certainly must try. Survival of the fittest only works when creatures make a genuine best effort towards survival.
Nature has created a creature with the ability to alter animals' DNA, make wild changes to the environment, and so forth. What happened here? Has nature been perfect in her wisdom for billions of years, but then she screwed up by allowing us to evolve?
It's more likely, I think, that this is the way she intended it. How is technology created by organic beings somehow seperate from the organic beings themselves? Bees make honeycombs, beavers make dams, and humans make genetic treatments for diseases. If we do succeed in creating an AIDS vaccine or cure, then IMO, it's a natural part of evolution.
You have strong opinions as to what we need to do to survive, to respect nature. And that's noble. But I take offense at the fact that you presume to speak for her. You're just as likely to be wrong about everything as the rest of us. We don't have to learn anything from nature. Nature is automatic. If a creature is wrong, it is removed. We should meddle. We should try to guide our own destiny. That's what humans do. If we're right, then we're right. If we're wrong, nature will let us know.
