Comments on: Is It Okay to Eat Babies? http://www.boldlygo.org/is-it-okay-to-eat-babies Science Fiction, Philosophy, and the Future... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:32:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ctbriar13770 http://www.boldlygo.org/is-it-okay-to-eat-babies/comment-page-1#comment-2291 ctbriar13770 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:59:30 +0000 http://www.boldlygo.org/?p=211#comment-2291 I think that it is a valid point to make that organisms have no say in how they evolve. The babyeater system would have spead up evolution and therefore evolved. But the organisms couldn't have chosen this path. And even now, if they didn't eat their babies, they would strip their planet of resources in a few years. While the trait could be cured by means of genetic engineering, so could sickle-cell animia, and we didn't bother with that. If we could ally with the "babyeaters", we could probably defeat the "superhappies" much the same way we allied with the USSR to defeat Hitler instead of nuking the world and destroy all three of us. Conflict is at times unavoidable, but neccesary to keep society moving. I think that it is a valid point to make that organisms have no say in how they evolve. The babyeater system would have spead up evolution and therefore evolved. But the organisms couldn’t have chosen this path. And even now, if they didn’t eat their babies, they would strip their planet of resources in a few years. While the trait could be cured by means of genetic engineering, so could sickle-cell animia, and we didn’t bother with that.

If we could ally with the “babyeaters”, we could probably defeat the “superhappies” much the same way we allied with the USSR to defeat Hitler instead of nuking the world and destroy all three of us. Conflict is at times unavoidable, but neccesary to keep society moving.

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