Posted on 05/29/2015 7:32:57 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Control of reproduction, aging and disease will CHANGE everything.
The old family cycle for humans was based on guaranteed pregnancy between males and females. It was also based on aging and set lifespans.
Today pregnancy can be completely eliminated from the cycle. Today people of any sex can merge their DNA into children. And very very soon people will have the ability to never age and never get disease.
Most of the natural incentives for traditional family will not exist anymore so people will be free to completely explore their world as they see fit.
Change is rough sometimes but it is unstoppable, inevitable and just the way things will be. You can’t force people to adopt an old system that no longer makes sense in a new world
If you do not tether “morality,” meaning the standard of right and wrong conduct, to the Bible or the Koran or the Mosaic Law or some other religious authority, then you must chose another standard. The Golden Rule? Hollywood? The ruling or dominant culture? What is in the best interests of society as a whole? Who decides that?
I wonder how many FReepers even find this normal and acceptable?
Well, this American doesn’t embrace it.
“The Golden Rule”
Precisely. The ONLY rules on personal conduct should be: do not steal from or physically harm your neighbor.
Anything besides that is nanny-statism or “pre-crime”.
Narcissism allows all that. This me too feelings culture has given people all kinds of justifications for most heinous and distrustfull deeds. Gone are the days I could invite people at my house without worrying. Nice people who seem to have low life-IQs are tolerated and then you finally realize the ugly truth you suspected all along.
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