(August 27, 2013 at 11:15 pm)Koolay Wrote: You think it's time to consider an alternative to creating a group of people using the initiation of force to solve social problems?
I'm intrigued by this idea that if it was "every man for himself," humanity would be less violent and more agreeable. Because I'm not seeing any other alternative to what you describe above as government.
"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
