(December 14, 2024 at 10:39 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: 2. As such, violence and progress do not, and cannot, coexist.
I think that as societies become more organized and civilized, the effectiveness of violence wanes to the point where it can indeed become detrimental. But until we get to that point, violence remains an effective means of attaining progress. The history of humanity seems to be an ongoing demonstration of our attempts to figure out where that line is.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
