benny

"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again." (Karl Popper) http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/karl_popper.html

To me, the first question to be asked before judging if a society deserves to be called a civilization is: does that society makes of a non-existent natural necessity (hard work), the only virtue for those who owns no property (the workers)?

Is evolution not tentative only?

The cult dedicated to cats in Egypt is an indication that this civilization was mostly pressed by the celestial eternity.

"definitive site for evolution" isn't it more probably an oxymoron, a contradiction in the terms.

To me, the western side of the Eurasian continent is not so much a "peninsula" but a dead-end: living in a dead-end takes its toll on personalities and cultures. Populations become overcrowded, aggressive and ready to risk their lives to find larger pastures.

Bach posts are too baroque compositions.

A coma is a worthless kind of sleep because, when someone experiments a nightmare inside a coma, s/he doesn't wake up. At the most significant level, a human being, compared to other animals, is a living being who "wakes up" when confronted to her/his sex drive.

A morally superior person will ask her/himself: what if I was born with another person genetic makeup and in a different time and place?

It is O’Neill not O’Neil. WTC includes WTC7. Anthrax includes Cipro. Hauer was having the thrill of his life I guess.

(Human) Evolution is driven mainly by traumatic events. This is the reason why, before taking your precious time to listen to PBS videos, you should allocate some time to read: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock. http://books.google.com/books?id=1vp_flyTr...esnum=4#PPP1,M1

I wonder what significant goal you can hope achieving with this kind of cheap shot post!

Counter-factuality (as if…) is the very basis of moral reasoning.

- September 10, 2001, John O'Neill began his new functions as security chief at the WTC; he had been hired by Hauer. - The morning of 9/11, Hauer had moved temporarily OEM out of WTC7 and in NY port to busy himself with anthrax.

The explosion thesis is plausible since renovations in 1998-1999 inside the World Trade Center were directed by Jerome Hauer.

To me, (anthropomorphic) concepts like "survival advantage" and "cost/benefit analysis" don't apply since hearing their mothers are traumatizing experiences for fetuses to a point where they risk the lives of their mothers by requiring too much sugar (for their own brains) from them.

Terrorizing all politicians in Ottawa should be our goal on this forum.

Your own argument (dogs eat dogs, no ONE WOLRD) is an outdated classical liberal axiom.

How a few White men could conquer so great country like the Aztec Empire with such ease? Indians were afraid of horses, guns, cannons, and had a legend about the god of wind Quetzalkoatl (or Quetzalcoatl, taken from Toltecs, name means “feathered serpent” or “plumed serpent”, probably a merge of two deities) - a good white and bearded god, who gave them laws, alphabet and taught many technological inventions, then departed to the East Sea, and who some day would return from East on a “winged ship” to punish bad people and help poor and oppressed (every second Indian culture in Central America had a myth like that, so you may find also another versions of this legend). Therefore at the beginning Cortes was taken for Quetzalkoatl (Quetzalcoatl). And even if Montezuma II was not sure Quetzalkoatl (Quetzalcoatl) really returned, he had to take into account beliefs of his subjects (i.e. people who lived under his rule). http://www.geocities.com/historymech/rewpcamer.html

Generations overlap.

The liberal mindset includes this negative vs. positive liberties debate.

A social contract is precisely a device that would have allowed Europeans to better allocate resources in between searching for the cause of diseases and financing a gold fever in the New World.

- Liberalism is right now the only mindset that can be understood widely allowing humanity to escape raw violence. - Freedom for most is merely a formal abstraction and science highest achievement is only a suggestion that AGW is real.

We are all speaking inside the mindset of liberal democracies. John Locke is the philosopher who has instigated the transition from mercantilism (a negative-sum game) towards liberalism (positive-sum game). So redressing past ills now can only mean contracting a new sharing collective agreement about the costs and benefits of social cooperation. Only when we will have a new social contract will we be able to morally evaluate the outlawing of slavery, scientific prowesses, etc.

Mercantilism was the general mindset of Europeans when they started searching for an alternative route to China. We all know now that this political and economic system was morally flawed. So, the time has come to redress the wrongs done by our ancestors.