In Reply to: Social Darwinism: Don't get me started! posted by CB on August 27, 2006 at 12:19:03:
oh well, since you got started ; ) ...I appreciate your time posting/responding...sure, the topic seems to be endless...just want to say: you're doing great in helping others...just saw a documentary on German TV about the "mes" (?!!)- designer drug, which people brew together in some state, forgot the name...big problem: people are bored(lovely countryside)....the effect of the drug is horrendous...people scratching their faces, they age rapidly, loose their memory...it was really sad...
What bothers me in some debates with agnostics & unbelievers: on the one hand they talk about the ape in you...the animal, they are aware of that bad, moody, explosive inner potential...yet when it's out for some bad circumstances & reasons the very same people often want revenge...but didn't they just propose, that man has this animalistic side...so how can you be surprised by the bad "outburst"...isn't that a bit inconsequent?
I don't share this view, I think people should be held accountable (though I know people in court in Germany get milder sentences e.g. if someone was
conducting the crime not in clear consciousness, like being under drugs, mentally ill etc.)
I guess you know about the experiments this American Libet (!?) was conducting with the outcome, that part of the brain prepared already the reaction before the person realised it fully... hence my debate below with Susie, whether she believes in free will...all that plays a role in justice, in sentences all over the world...
One day I like to start (continue!?) a debate among the exers - young & old - how great really the "system" is...
As for me I neither like the "system"/world nor TF....sure I like/love people living "down here",but very much is very sick...