| Uhh... I voted you up for the first part. The second part was simply naive. Please consider game theory. Yours (and mine) moral is from a society with a functioning police force, rule of law and state violence monopoly. Without that, there is a clan society, where your only security is that others (generally relatives) will revenge you. A form of terror balance. Out moral just doesn't work there, since to avoid violence you have to make people believe you are ready to inflict it. (I am unaware of a third alternative to state violence monopoly and clan societies. There are obviously places in between, with organized crime (south Italy, Mexico?). Please educate me if I miss something basic?) Let me take an example: There is no world police since Obama seems to be abdicating USA's partial role, countries now live in an analogue of a clan society (e.g. do alliances for protection from aggression). Consider how Russia and China are starting the jingoism garbage again. How do you know other countries/species won't? tl;dr: Don't take your moral instinct for logic. |
So basically... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book
If this is truly all the human race is capable of; living in a perpetual stalemate of attack-power then we should just stay on our earth and perish.