{"id":29841,"date":"2012-05-06T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29841"},"modified":"2012-05-06T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:47:25","slug":"questions-that-dont-get-asked-enough-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29841","title":{"rendered":"Questions That Don’t Get Asked Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently re-read “Oath Of Fealty”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>an old SciFi novel by Niven and Pournelle. This post concerns just one quote from that book so please don’t get entangled in the balance. I mention the book as a source only, NOT as context.<\/p>\n

Think of it as evolution in action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A working definition: Evolution as a process that leads to survival of the fittest, or\u00a0 natural selection. Whether this process is controlled by The Divine or driven solely by nature is NOT germane here. It either is an on-going process – or it isn’t? And that ain’t the question anyway.<\/p>\n

I’ll posit that we do not always do humanity a favor by fighting against nature. All men may be created equal but soon divergence becomes apparent.<\/p>\n

One anecdotal example: Don’t pee on the third rail.<\/a> Others can be found online by looking up “Epic Fail” or similar.<\/p>\n

Then we have:\u00a0Prof Stephen Hawking has been caught red-handed having visited a sex club in The States<\/a>. NB, this is not exactly relevant here, it just tickles me.\u00a0 Arguably one of the finest minds on the planet is quite human.<\/p>\n

How is any of this fodder for the TAH crowd you might reasonably ask? Most of us consider firearms and other weapons simply as tools. They also can trim the gene pool on occasion.\u00a0 War – on the scale we are capable of even more so.<\/p>\n

And, of course, the phony socialist effort to equalize everyone is in play.<\/p>\n

Here’s the question (it don’t get asked in polite circles)… Have we screwed up evolution, as defined above, so much with technology that the concept is meaningless? Further, is this a good thing for humanity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently re-read “Oath Of Fealty”\u00a0\u00a0 an old SciFi novel by Niven and Pournelle. This post concerns … Questions That Don’t Get Asked Enough?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}