Re: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps

From: Andrew Nowicki (andrew_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:31:34 +0200

theBeaver wrote:
>
> The human instinct to expand our territory and breed is not something
> that should be indulged. Man's biggest problem is his inclination to
> *** in his own house, thinking, instinctively, that territorial
> expansion or future miracles will save him. It is the nature of things
> that unbridled ambition speeds its own end, and if humans cannot reign
> in their own animal urges by reason, we deserve to go nowhere. To hear
> this primitive impulse touted as a laudable goal that's supposed to
> inspire me with pride in my species disgusts me.

All systems of ethics are arbitrary. Our universe is a big pile
of dangerous trash. Some biologists believe that 80% of terrestrial
species are parasites -- a sort of biological trash. Why the other
civilizations have not transformed this trash into something of
greater value, for example manufactured objects or living things?
The answer is that all values are imaginary -- everything we
care about does not have greater value than the trash.

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