On 04-08-98 David Martorana wrote to All... 
 DM>       "Modern human beings are unlikely to have erased the old 
 DM> mammalian 
 DM>  genetic programs and devised other means of distributing power.  All 
 DM> the 
 DM>  evidence suggests that they have not. True to their primate heritage, 
 DM>  people are easily seduced by confident, charismatic leaders, 
 DM> especially males.  That predisposition is strong in religious... 
Then I take it that the Chalcolithic Aryan invention of a supreme 
God*dess* would be a genetic mammalian advance to that chauvinism 
typical of all the other primates, including the other races? 
 
Your other post citing the greatest good for the greatest number; 
is that the greatest number only those alive now, or should there 
be some calculation of the greatest number including posterity? 
 
So, can you *sacrifice* some number now for a somewhat greater in 
the future?  History, Greek history in particular, suggests there 
is a considerable return on investment in doing so.  The Liberals 
seem generally unable to make this calculation, and unable to put 
the guilt in doing so in any long term light. 
 
IIRC, one of the points Aristotle made, unlike the Bible, or some 
other supposedly wise documents, was that if you wish to do good, 
you would do well to figure out how long the good you do would be 
good *for*.  Unless you are willing, as Neitzsche said, to accept 
this guilt, you cannot do anything that lasts. 
 
To some considerable extent, this was adopted by the Nazis, as an 
excuse to do anything in the name of what they saw as *progress*. 
So, to sacrifice the good of some now, for the good of some more, 
later in the future, is indeed- a slippery slope. 
 
However, to over-compensate to avoid any likeness to Nazis is not 
prudent, as the overpopulation and the third world devastation of 
ecosystems that results, is obviously demonstrating.  So, who has 
the right to judge your morality David- your contemporaries, or a 
posterity you cannot easily see? 
 
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