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Old Jun 25th, 2006, 06:43 PM       
The problem with evolution, and I don't know if I mentioned this here or not, is that it obliterates the question of why humans exist and replaces it with how humans came to exist. Evolution makes humans a contingent phenomenon, rather than a neccesary substance, that is to say it makes us an event that depended on contingent historical circumstances, rather than a thing with a neccesary and unchangable nature.

The significance of this is that if we are contingent, and not neccesary, then why should our actions be neccesarily one way, and not the other? We are the way we are because of contingent circumstances, so we could just as easily been some other way, so how can we have a neccesary morality? Morality is what is good for humans, but t humans aren't neccesarily any paticular way, because humans aren't actually neccesary. We could have happened to be some other way, or not happened at all (we could have all been aborted by evolution, at least then we wouldn't have to suffer our existence in these shitty mortal coils am I right fellas) if things just worked out a bit differently. There was no reason we are the way we are, so there can be no reason we should do things in any particular way. Basically what I'm saying is that evolution doesn't provide for 'the heart of humanity'.
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