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I don't think Darwinists would agree with aborting "below average" fetuses. (You haven't clearly defined what "below average" would mean.) Nor would they necessarily want to use biotechnology to "enhance" others. I think a Darwinist would prefer to let nature take its course, rather then meddle with it. They might even argue that the human mind cannot begin to understand the mechanisms of evolution to have any real (or proper) control over it. This also runs into past problems with such ideas as social Darwinism and eugenics. I hope to leave such ideas in the past.
And moral relativism is a frightening thing. I don't believe such a thing exists. I would like to think that what is morally wrong for one is morally wrong for all.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-25-2007 at 05:13 PM..
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