Objective Thoughts

12-14-03

It is a flash of self awareness that ensures we do not forget our ultimate goal. What is it that mankind searches so desperately for? Perhaps it is often times the idea that homosapiens are unable to function rationally. That their search is one of feeling and emotion, subjective qualities that make an absolute answer impossible.

Reason must be our guide and logic our road-map. Humans are at the top of the foodchain, the ultimate predators. Reason dictates that we strive for the freedom to live our own lives unencumbered by the "feelings" generated by "social consiousness". Humans should strive to maximize our return without encroaching on anothers right to do the same. We should further try to free of a system which holds as its highest moral principle "From each according to his ability To each according to his need".
It is imperative that makind escape from the inconsistency in our own moral context. Our innate need to act from a point of logic which some try to balance with the cry that we must "feel from our hearts". Feel what ...and for whom. Reason demads that we act consistent with our nature. Emotion demads that we disregard our nature all together. Logic states that absolutes exist and are irrevocable. "Feeling" claims that all is subjective and unlear.

And yet, we often find ourselves leaving logic behind in the interest of convenience. Feeling is so much easier. It allows us to suspend our natural tendency towards ethical behaviour. It removes barriers inmposed by our "reasoning" mind, allowing us to act in a manner inconsistent with our normal rational behavior.