Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Society Survives through Morality (part 2)

Let's review from part 1 so we can continue:

A child that does not share, in general, has less friends because they are not fun.
A (known) murderer has no friends because no one wants to die.

Just keep these ideas in mind. Now I'll present a concise view of the morals of society as a whole:

My teacher made a joke about how it's obviously immoral to go around eating babies because that would just be wrong and weird. Granted, as a sane human being, I agree that eating babies is unnecessary, yet we'll look at the idea of the loss of babies/births in general.

In an easy to present way, here's a simple flow-chart:

Live baby --> Child --> Adult --> Work
No baby --> Nothing --> Nothing --> Nothing

It should be easy to understand that by killing a child results in a decrease in the total populous and, therefore, a decrease in the potential for a working member of society. I know it's morbid to think of the death of a child as only a loss in the workforce, as there are emotional reasons as well, yet I'm only concerned with the societal impact of individual loss.

Now, take those individual losses and create a worst-case scenario in which we lived in a world where all newborns weren't allowed to live; there would be no new generation, no progeny of the earth. No new members of society. No new developments. No societal progression. Eventually the human race would die out.

Think of the movie "Children of Men", in which all the women went infertile. the whole world went into mass chaos because they knew there was no future for humanity and therefore no reason to work for anything. They understood that society would eventually become a thing of the past as a result.


Obviously, this will never be the case, but to prove a point, we need children, not just for our families, but to become part of society and perpetuate its existence, synonymously our survival as a species.

Review:
A society with no creation of new members will eventually cease to exist.
Just to keep things easy to read, for those of you who are interested, I will put my final thoughts into one more post, coming later today. Remember, this entire idea I'm presenting is just a very general theory I thought of in my philosophy class. Not all of it is guaranteed correct or plausible. I'm just putting this out there because I think it is an interesting thought. I'd love feedback via comments or Facebook, if you all have any additions or ideas.

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