X-Message-Number: 11478
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:57:56 -0800
From: Rand Simberg <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #11469

At 05:00 AM 3/28/99 -0500, Thomas Donaldson wrote:

>1. To Mike Perry: It is FALSE that evolution works for the good of the
>species. Evolution almost always (except in special situations which do
>not apply to human beings) works for the good of INDIVIDUALS.

This isn't correct either.  While evolution certainly acts on individuals,
it is utterly indifferent as to what is good for them--it only acts to the
benefit of those individuals' *genes*.  Only we can determine, by our own
value systems, what is good for *us*.

Nature is not your friend...
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