26th May 2006, 1:20 AM
Purpose is a strong word lazy. Purpose is something people decide for themselves. It's more accurate to say it's the one thing we have in common with ALL our ancestors, the ability to reproduce in some fasion. Just making more of me isn't my idea of a sole guiding purpose, but then again I'm not about "net results" as a guide to giving one's life value. There's one other thing we have in common with all our ancestors, dying, but I'm not exactly going to call that my sole purpose.
Besides, calling that my sole purpose makes it sound like if I don't do that I've "failed" somehow. Things that reproduce, reproduce. Things that don't, don't. There's nothing inherently "bad" about a line of genes ending, it just isn't a good long term survival strategy for a species. It's just a matter of opinion. For example, it is a GREAT strategy for NOT reproducing :D.
Besides, calling that my sole purpose makes it sound like if I don't do that I've "failed" somehow. Things that reproduce, reproduce. Things that don't, don't. There's nothing inherently "bad" about a line of genes ending, it just isn't a good long term survival strategy for a species. It's just a matter of opinion. For example, it is a GREAT strategy for NOT reproducing :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)