So we really don't choose how we live. This is all about genetics, and evolution, and human nature, and survival of the fittest, and what makes us live longer. We should live how we are programmed to live? Bees live that way, too.
It seems to me that if we decide that another way of living is more desireable, for whatever reasons, our choice, than it is worth living.
So we really don't choose how we live. This is all about genetics, and evolution, and human nature, and survival of the fittest, and what makes us live longer. We should live how we are programmed to live? Bees live that way, too. It seems to me that if we decide that another way of living is more desireable, for whatever reasons, our choice, than it is worth living. As a Libertarian, if an acquaintence was hitting the booze a little too often, because it felt good to him, I would not use force to make him stop (as long as he was not endangering others by his actions)
I would, however, feel compelled to point out the long-term consequences of his short-term pleasures, and ask him to consider if that's what he really wanted for his future.
Without a sense of duty, freely taken on, a free society cannot endure. Duty cannot be replaced by laws -- it doesn't work. My opposition to laws which presume they can subsitute for self-assumed duty, in Illbay's eyes, make me a "Libertine". I prefer to think myself a realist