(September 9, 2013 at 6:20 pm)Koolay Wrote:If you are advocating for the elimination of governments, it would be wise to make sure that you can replace it with something better, isn't it? Your topic isn't titled "guns are the number one killer" after all.(August 29, 2013 at 7:41 am)Tonus Wrote: 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.Are you saying that I need to create an entire system of society to function just to say that we should put down the guns?
"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
