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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aus_Snow" data-source="post: 5079766" data-attributes="member: 29112">I'll give my own answers to some of these, even if they happen to be rhetorical, or what have you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Of course. Heh, well, depending. . . <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There are instances to be found in that context, sure. Likewise, in others.Sure. It might as readily point towards going against the status quo.I might be misremembering, but I seem to recall that even for Darwin, risk/reward, sacrifice and the greater good were no strangers to the bigger picture. I mean, if <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10432608-1.html" target="_blank">robots</a> can (apparently) 'evolve' [some] such notions, I'm sure humans in a 'pure science' universe can too. . .Alas, all I own of Lewis is Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength, and The Screwtape Letters. But I'll see if anyone I know has a copy of that one, or failing that, head to the local (or uni) library.Well, I certainly agree here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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