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The Value of Human, and life in General
By: siva_canjeevaram Date: February 21, 2021, 9:39 pm
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Richard Dawkins the famous evolutionary biologist says that he
is always amazed by the way evolution seems to have worked. That
is by weeding out the weak and letting them to go out of
existence naturally. And Dawkins has said that this is what
scared him (my own words) he said that he does not want to live
in a Darwinistic Society, because he believed that no human is
lesser than any other, and hence does not deserve "extinction".
In the movie The Titanic there is a scene when the lifeboats are
brought down and people are allowed to board them. Seeing that
there are not many boats, some people decide to stay back (like
the musicians etc) alas, what is the point in getting in a boat
and only die later? But then there were some people who were
trying to bribe the sailors so that they can get a seat. I have
myself seen such situations and have been in such situations,
(when I was in India). In India there is no queue anywhere, it
is all a "first go, first get" basis. This is not specific to
India, but everywhere. My point is, that when resources are
limited than humans start to behave selfish, and this only seems
to be natural.
Now assume that there was a Government in the Titanic and the
Government had ways to enforce its policies, what might be the
action of the Government? Obviously the governments choice would
have been to let the Women and Children first and then figure
out a way to save the strong people. Now imagine if instead of
Government, the Titanic had an AI and Robots, or Cyborgs that
will enforce the AIs orders, What might be the course of action
the AI? The AI's objective will be to save the maximum number of
lives, and not just the event, but take a long term view, like
how much time can they survive, how many children will the
survivors produce, etc. My point here is not to debate the
mechanism of the AI, that is for a later discussion. My point
here is to demonstrate the value of a human being. And the
question is what is the value of a human being? and what does it
depend on?
[center]"The value of a human being lies in its ability to
survive, ability to reproduce, as well as its ability to
evolve"[/center]
But there is something critical missing in the above.
[center]"The value of a human being also lies in its ability to
being human"[/center]
I mean, what is the point of a having a human being that could
survive, reproduce and evolve but is not a human? We will be
then only producing monsters. Monsters who are interested in
their own survival, reproduction and evolution. Even at the cost
of their own species. This will eventually lead to an
interplanetary Oligarchy (and I guess that is where we are
heading to) I am ok with such Oligarchies, I mean, what say do I
have? But the problem is, even such Oligarchies will are sure to
die. Unless they replace all humans by robots, which I think is
very far fetched and "Hollywoody", and just like the hollywood
movies, the rebels can the hack the Robots and turn them against
the Oligarchies.
If the virtues of humanity dies, then the species dies too. We
cannot do anything that will assure our own death. Hence, we
cannot lose our humanity. Hence the value of a human being is
this;
[center]"The value of a human being lies in its ability to
survive, ability to reproduce, ability to evolve, as well as has
the human virtues"[/center]
Now this code gives us the moral authority to differentiate
between humans. For e.g. A murderer and an ordinary school
teacher. Or a Child Molester and Car Thief.
Hence, in the case of the Titanic example, A Child Molester
would be considered the last to board the boat. But he still has
to be considered to board the boat, unless there is a danger to
other people. Or the person is beyond any salvage.
And hence the Social Credit System of China is "justified", at
least in the Chinese Context. I know people, especially the far
right who hate the Chinese Social Credit System. But think it
this way, Imagine China as a Titanic ship. Now imagine that
there are a hundred times more people than the number of
lifeboats. Now I ask the far right person what would they do?
Whom will they allow first to board the boats? And there
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