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ANNOTATION:
If you accept increasing fitness as the meaning of life...
then you must accept any action of a group or individual that inceases thier own fitness as essentially 'good'. Accept the word 'good' here as shorthand for 'things in agreement with fulfilling the meaning of life', please.
So, any action that is good must be accepted by anyone who also wants that which is good. So, now we need to figure out what increases fitness.
Fitness is by it's nature a competitive thing. The obvious tautology of natural selection proves this satisfactorily. When something increases in Fitness, it is naturally more fit than something else, if anything else exists that it is in competition with.
So since the system must exist in future to be Fit, and since it must be in competition if there is any other neighboring system, you must accept that it must attempt to exist in future, and to prevent competing systems to exist in future, in order to increase in Fitness.
Since the meaning of life is to increase Fitness, any system that increases it's own fitness is in accordance with that meaning and therefore 'good'. And so you must accept that any system that increases it's own fitness in place of another system's fitness is 'good'.
Biological life on earth exists in a closed environment, with limited resources. Thus all bio life here competes. Since humans are a part of this competing environment, we compete.
So, you must accept that any human system that attempts to increase the probability of it's own existence instead of another system's existence is 'good'.
And so, all societies' efforts to ensure existance of that society over another must be good.
Slavery is therefore good. Genocide is therefore good. All malformed or abnormal progeny should be purged, and this is good.
John-Paul Sartre agrees with me. If you find these conclsios distastefull, then you are not good, as defined by your precepts.
in short, if you beleive those precepts, you are in for a suprise. that suprise will offend you, and you will hate. you will attempt to remove the offending thing. it is unlikely that you will succeed. if you wish to continue exist in future, i recommend a change of precepts.
Author: Anonymous (name @ host.domain)
Date: Apr 7, 2002REPLY: Join them rather than Beating them
Eliminating competition is not the only way of avoiding one's own downfall. Did you ever consider that one system may work in harmony with another to eliminate the competition between them and therefore better both of their chances of survival? It may not be 'good' to do that because it decreases fitness by increasing hostilities and the chance of a counterattack from that victim system.
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