Yes, many people make a living caring for the elderly. Just like many are employed at the welfare office. But the fact is that caring for the elderly, as is giving other people's money to support other people who don't or can't support themselves is a net lost to society. It cost us money. What if we were all elderly and infirmed? How could we generate wealth? Why are you having difficulty grasping this very obvious concept other than that it does not comport with your belief that everything we do is related to enhancing our survival?
Da Vinci, like I said, I considered you a intelligent and thoughtful person but it now seems to me that you are not as interested in the truth but in promoting your agenda.
I'll say it again: spending resources: money, labor, equipment, hospital space, caring for the elderly, infirmed, deformed, mentally deficient... is a net cost to society. They produce nothing and contribute nothing to society but cost a lot to maintain. They are a net lost. A liability. They do not enhance our wealth, progression or quality of life and therefore our survival. But we take care of them anyway.
I think you miss the point. Which is - these old/ill people create a huge industry for OTHER people to be able to have a job at, literally millions can survive out of that. Id we wouldn't spend money on their drugs, pharma would go out of bussiness, many people would lose jobs, nurses would loose jobs, health care professionals, a huge chain reaction. Just like in nature - someone took a shit, and someone ate it (flyes), for sme it's shit, for some it's gold. Idk how is that not related to survival. Have you seen how it is in India for ex, where noone pays for taking care of old/crippled? They just lie on the street and often die there. Just one of the examples.
Why do you avoid the simple question that do you believe that man and animals should have the same basic rights? And if not, why not if you consider humans and animals all the same? To claim that you have never thought of the rights of all living things and in the same breath claim that you have been contemplating the great issues of life for your entire life rings a bit hollow.
I believe that all livin organisms have the same rights by default. To kill, or to be killed. That's pretty much it. And the fact that animals and humans have different rights is simply due to the fact that we are stronger, we don't care much about other live beings, we are driven by our own interest in personal survival.
And I think it is unfortunate, but not surprising because of the secularization of our culture, that you believe that man is no different from an animal. That you are basically the same as a toad, a snake, a mongoose or a wild turkey.
I've thtought long and hard back in the day and couldn't find any serious differences. They are living exactly the same existence as we do, just brain capacity differs, so the same actions and results manifest in different ways, but they are still the same.
An animal acts purely on instinct. It takes what it wants if it can get away with it (steals), it mates with whomever it wants (rape), and attacks whomever it doesn't want around.
Just like a small kid who hasn't been indoctrinated "how to behave" yet, by a more intelligent human.
An animal has no moral sense. It doesn't think in terms of right or wrong. What surprises me is that so many agree with you. You have called everybody reading this thread that they are no better than animals. They either agree with you or too cowardly to speak up against such a grave insult. By calling someone an animal you rob them of their humanity -- their heart and their soul. When they look at themselves, their parents and all that they sacrificed, their children of whom they have given so much, when you consider the real heroes in this world that have sacrifice their lives for the benefit of others -- when they look at all this all they see are fellow animals that somehow developed a modesty that demands that they wear clothes. Just animals really no different from a hyena, a crocodile, a trigger fish, or a timber wolf.
No need to look far, take radical muslims, they are pretty much apes with clothes on. We are a little bit more intelligent and don't kill as openly as they does. BTW - I don't think being an animal is bad or something, I have no idea why is that negative. I just accept it like it is. Humans - sophisticated animals. Survival machines, just like any other, just more effective ones.
