leechstomper
March 28th, 2009, 4:44 pm
In their basest form, societies develope rules to insure their own continuance. If there were no basic guidlines, any group of more than one individual would soon disintegrate into anarchy and self destruct. This is true in all species. The first rule of any specie is to reproduce. Once you get past single cell organisms, this means that you have to have more than one sex. Sure there are some species such as worms that can change sexes to fit the need, but they still need two sexes.
The more advanced the species, the more rules to survival there are. Canines form packs and within these packs there are rules. Rules such as don't kill members of your own family, share the work load, care for the young, refrain from incest in order to keep the gene pool viable, are all needed to insure the specie as they know it.
When you get to the great apes, the rules get even more complex. Murdering one of your own group is frowned on. Stealing from a group mate is discouraged. Everyone is expected to look out for danger and to help protect the other group members. Apes break some of their rules but they are developed enough to feel bad about it. They are starting to have morals.
Humans are the most complex. But, even in the most primative of human societies, there are rules which are now known as morals. Sure an individual can blatantly disregard these rules and run around stealing, killing and indulging in incest but the rest of the members of their society soon hunt them down and put an end to the destructive behavior. Even though humans have the ability and the will to disregard the rules to survival, they try not to. That is because we realize that to break the rules means to doom ourselves to moral anarchy and extinction as a specie.
Why is it then, that when some members of our society are breaking the very basest of the rules in specie survival, we are condemned for discouraging them instead of celebrating them? Why are we made out to be the villians in our attempt to insure our specie's survival? Just because we want to do something, and are capable of the act, does that mean the breaking of nature's rules now become the norm? In the name of indulging an individual's hedonistic desires, are we condemning our race to anarchy and self-destruction? Are we to believe that since we are now allowed to casually disregard nature's rule that mating must require two seperate sexes, we are also allowed to freely indulge in cannibalism, murder and incest - all of which were once thought of by all society to be repugnant?
Just a thought.
The more advanced the species, the more rules to survival there are. Canines form packs and within these packs there are rules. Rules such as don't kill members of your own family, share the work load, care for the young, refrain from incest in order to keep the gene pool viable, are all needed to insure the specie as they know it.
When you get to the great apes, the rules get even more complex. Murdering one of your own group is frowned on. Stealing from a group mate is discouraged. Everyone is expected to look out for danger and to help protect the other group members. Apes break some of their rules but they are developed enough to feel bad about it. They are starting to have morals.
Humans are the most complex. But, even in the most primative of human societies, there are rules which are now known as morals. Sure an individual can blatantly disregard these rules and run around stealing, killing and indulging in incest but the rest of the members of their society soon hunt them down and put an end to the destructive behavior. Even though humans have the ability and the will to disregard the rules to survival, they try not to. That is because we realize that to break the rules means to doom ourselves to moral anarchy and extinction as a specie.
Why is it then, that when some members of our society are breaking the very basest of the rules in specie survival, we are condemned for discouraging them instead of celebrating them? Why are we made out to be the villians in our attempt to insure our specie's survival? Just because we want to do something, and are capable of the act, does that mean the breaking of nature's rules now become the norm? In the name of indulging an individual's hedonistic desires, are we condemning our race to anarchy and self-destruction? Are we to believe that since we are now allowed to casually disregard nature's rule that mating must require two seperate sexes, we are also allowed to freely indulge in cannibalism, murder and incest - all of which were once thought of by all society to be repugnant?
Just a thought.