Ponder a moral issue that is much in play at the Future of Humanity Institute, the idea that existential threats to our species may outweigh our obligations to serve those who are suffering today.
To: LibWhacker
His work on the subject has earned him a reputation as a secular Daniel, a doomsday prophet for the empirical set. Other secular humanists are more optimistic. They believe that man will be able to save himself and ensure his survival by directing his own evolution and by evolving into a new species that is a type of computer, that will be able to create a new world order, which will be a future paradise on earth, guided by secular humanist principles.
2 posted on
02/27/2013 1:26:37 PM PST by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: LibWhacker
If the commies keep squeezing us on the earth, people WILL HAVE move to space to avoid tyranny....
3 posted on
02/27/2013 6:35:22 PM PST by
GraceG
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