RE: Try and prove me wrong on this...
August 4, 2014 at 2:06 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 2:07 pm by Tonus.)
Sounds like an argument about practicality. If being selfish allows you to straighten out your life and put yourself into a position where you can eventually help others, then being selfish for a period of time is the practical choice. This assumes that the selfishness is part of a plan designed to help others selflessly later, though.
"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
