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- From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
- Subject: Re: Brainwashied
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- In-Reply-To: dcroz@twics.co.jp's message of 1 Jan 93 14:28:26 GMT
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:16:53 GMT
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- In article <34660@twics.co.jp> dcroz@twics.co.jp writes:
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- [ . . . almost everything omitted . . . ]
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- > I am arguing that there are some things, such as a prohibition on violent
- > crime and antibiotics, that make like better for human beings in an absolute
- > sense. Humans living in a society that has these things have a better chance
- > of surviving and being "happy," and also of having the leisure to achieve
- > further advances.
-
- [ . . . and some more omitted . . . ]
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- While I admit this is nitpicking, I would, nonetheless, point out that you
- would have to work much harder than you have to make this argument convincing
- over the long run. If you take natural selection and evolution (both of
- humans and of bacteria) into account, it is far from clear that antibiotics
- and prohibitions against violent crime make life better except in the short
- run.
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- Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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