From:    Michael Aquino                         Area: Base of Set
To:      Quintin Phillips                        7 May 94 10:21:00
Subject: RE: Re: Group-Hierarchy                UpdReq 

QP> My personal ethic weighs on the side of the Innuit/Aboriginal and
QP> away from the "keep them alive at any co$t".  Does this mean that
QP> I am immoral?
No, because the immoral course of action is to evade the decision and endorse
everything being gestated and preserved alive. Supposedly that endorses the
sanctity of [human] "life" per se and certifies you as a nice person.
Morality necessitates making choices - the more difficult and complex the
choice, the more the test of morality. Often the test is between morality as
an abstract factor and any number of practical or utilitarian considerations.
Then the moral person may still make a decision based only, or primarily, on
his moral convictions - and stand the consequences of appearing to be socially 
"inconvenient".
As I look back on the 20th century, I think that perhaps its greatest failure
has been its inability to come to grips with the management of human
population vs. the capacities of the planet. Whatever else one may say about
the Nazi episode - by which I mean not just Germany but the very aggressive
theme of racism that extended across turn-of-the-century Western culture - its 
discrediting as a result of World War II has left the world fundamentally
unable to confront the problem of population. Every attempt to do so is
immediately howled down with shrieks of "genocide", "racism", "Nazism", etc.
And so the human race continues to expand, out of control and with no attempt
whatever at positive genetic engineering. We can and routinely do create
better, stronger, and healthier horses, dogs, etc. - but the notion of
applying such science to humanity is this century's strongest taboo. Our
future will pay the price for it; indeed the present is already doing so in
terms of the vast areas of human misery in the world of 1994.


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