Re: The man with the rhesus monkey brain (was Re: Jim's poor view of the Neanderthal)

Jim Bell (70672.1241@compuserve.com)
15 Nov 96 10:37:45 EST

Glenn Morton gives it the old college try:

<< And since
societies also evolve, a society that attacks itself is less fit than a
society which does not do that. Hitler used the organs of state to kill off
some of the brainiest and most industrious people in his own society. Thus
his society was much less fit (as history showed) than ours which did not
engage in self-cannibalism.>>

Sorry, but Hitler saw it in different terms. He saw himself purging society of
detritus. In evolutionary terms, you can't prove him wrong.

On moral terms, of course, you can. But that's the point: Our moral terms come
from a moral source. Evolutionism doesn't have that available to it.

I admire your courage on this one. No philosopher would have attempted it.

Jim