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Thread #127208   Message #2847298
Posted By: Teribus
23-Feb-10 - 12:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Torture in a civilised world
Subject: RE: BS: Torture in a civilised world
Now Don being the educable and informed chap that you are, or at least think you are, why do you think that the "my view" was in between inverted commas?

Another of my supposed "views" in Sugarfoots rapid fire ten shots happened to be a view I did not even express.

Don'T worry sort a thing an educable man could easily miss when he's too busy rushing to "Have-a-go" and prove what a smart arse he is.

Evolution is about improving one's adaptation to changing circumstances for better or worse and is thus totally amoral.

In which case Dave MacKenzie - Embrace extinction, while guiltily enjoying and thanking whoever for benefits your forefathers bestowed on you to enable you to live the life you have lived.

But just a couple of observations:

1.   I do not believe I have ever known of anything evolving for the worse, although I am sure that there are examples. The opposite of evolution of course is revolution, which involves rapid change, often with unforeseen and possibly undesired consequences. Mankind evolved but brought about the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution.

2. For there to be evolution there does not automatically or necessarily have to be any change in circumstance, the driver can often be just a simple desire to improve things and born of an enquiring mind.