Humanity revisited

Part two of http://nigeles.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/humanity.html

Chaos is the order of what was, is now, and ever will be. It is a world with no end and reason built of energy whatever form it takes. Our species had the gift to destroy evil and protect good where evil is defined as anything dysfunctional in our world. Eden is a parable; man is the serpent driven by self like Dworkin's genes. Even when we intend good we cannot see far enough in time to be sure. Cruelty and greed lie in our genes; redemption is in no genes and therefore no-one.

Much of our barbarity grows exponentially by grouping humans in organised religions, companies and states of all kinds.

Most humans carefully avoid seeing the dark and none could see the light.

A good life is drive by the principles of ethics and great care in any action. Regret and hatred serve to learn what to avoid; this done they must vanish before they reproduce themselves by dominating those who are weak.

We should all learn to become constant gardeners of what came from our chance existence born of one incarnation of energy that we see as space and time. To try to do good is all we can do but this includes removing the dysfunctional.

The universe as motiveless and timeless energy is from cosmology.
Ethics from Kant's pure reason
Evil of religion has so many sources but jihads, sharia law, the inquisitions and crusades are good exemplars.
The nature of dysfunction is from Talcott Parsons but why states end their days in the dark is from the transition from John Rawls politics to the selfishness of Nozick and Dworkin.

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