(November 20, 2012 at 7:52 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Jep. Civilisation is maintained.
To argue that human life is worth nothing "when civilisation fails" is useless theoreticising over things which do not matter.
When will civilisation no longer be maintained?
After global warming, when I can book a scubadiving tour of Holland? When zombies roam the planet? When nuclear war comes? When the nazis resurect a cyborg Göring? When the Borg attack? After the Chinese have enslaved us? When the Germans are coming?
Should any of these or other apocalyptic event occure, I shall consider the concept of social darwinism to save my own ass.
As long as civilization can conceivable be in a state of "non-maintenance", human value, according to you can conceivably be worth the same as dog feces.
This unfortunate "theoreticising" is the inconvenient truth of ascribing meaningless value to human life. We are all just matter, nothing more.
