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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:39:00 AST
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- From: Ramon <R_ALEMAN@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Discrimination of various kinds
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- >>>What is our purpose on Earth, if not for procreation, and the
- >>>betterment of the future world for our children?
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- >>There is no such thing as ultimate cause or ultimate purpose, except as our
- >>societies define them.
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- >Why society? Why not 'each individual'?
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- Because societal goals and/or purposes carry a bigger punch due to
- the existence of laws, traditions, enforcers, etc. If every individual
- defined its own "causes and purposes in life" we would have ANARCHY. And
- no one will like that, huh?
-
- -Ramon
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