(April 10, 2015 at 4:34 pm)abaris Wrote: Apart from the fact that "human glory" is a term to puke over, given our nature and the consequences it implies, ...
The fact that there is such thing as human shame does not imply that there is no such thing as human glory.
(April 10, 2015 at 4:34 pm)abaris Wrote: ... do you deny we are the product of evolution and therefore part of a natural chain?
The problem of how we came to be is irrelevant for the very different problem of what and who we are.
(April 10, 2015 at 4:34 pm)abaris Wrote: Is this some kind of religious master racist standpoint according to the bible bullshit of man being allowed to do with earth and it's cratures as he pleases?
Yes, limited only by that fact that nature, in order to be commanded, must be obeyed.