[ExI] Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn?t allow > himself to hope

[William Flynn Wallace]

I am not a big expert on evolution - but (yeah, there's a but here) it
seems that the only stress is on the number of offspring.  That might be
the case for most species, but for ours we need to bring the quality of the
offspring into consideration.  Higher quality people can have much greater
impact on the world.  For sheer numbers, we already have far too many
people, so our species survival is assured (compared to other ones, that is
- of course our survival may endanger all the rest if we don't tone down
the aggression).

bill w

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:04 PM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, it might be rational to use the condom from the gene's point of view
> if the offspring which are produced, though fewer, have a higher chance of
> producing offspring.
>
> We'll know in a few hundred years.
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:16 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> * >Is it rational to die for your tribe? Not from the individual's
>>> viewpoint!  But it is from the viewpoint of the genes*
>>
>>
>> Yes but it can work the other way too. Is it rational to use a condom?
>> Not from the genes viewpoint but it is from the individuals viewpoint.
>>
>> John K Clark
>>
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