What's survival good for?

Are you a Social Darwinist of sorts?

Nobody is 100% correct unless speaking an information-free tautology...

To repeat: What is survival good for? What do you need it for?

Point is, survival is not a "highest good" in any meaningful sense.

The means you pick for surviving determine the group that survives.

E.g., if you survive by using nukes, it will be cockroaches who survive.

If you survive by using colonialism, it will be arrogant assholes who survive.

Etc.

Think twice, before surviving, whether you really enable what is worthy to survive - or whether you selectively breed bottom feeders, bullies, or other unpleasant parts of a society.

It is more complicated than you seem to think, Ken.

Jun 19, 2012 -- 4:50PM, rocketjsquirell wrote:

An abiding truth: Survival requires strength, vigilance and resolve.

Wistful in Jerusalem
Elliot Abrams  

Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding—not wistful.
Yet that is how I am finding many during my current visit, as I asked them to analyze events in the region in which they live and what to do about them. They look north to Syria and see the savagery, the massacres, the now over 14,000 dead, and the world doing absolutely nothing. "You get no help in this region if you are weak," one IDF general said to me. "It is a reminder to us of just what would have happened to us and could still if we were not strong enough to defend ourselves. But now we watch as these women and children are slaughtered and no one acts to save them. We can't, for all the obvious reasons; it isn't up to us, it's up to the Arabs and to Europe and to you. And you do nothing."

full article:
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wistful-jer...

Syria and the lack of an international response to the plight of the Syrians is a lesson even those of us who are the most ardent "peacenicks" need to learn.

>>>>>>>> What are the "Obvious reasons"? They are not Jewish or Israel is afraid of Aasad regime?

Israel simply does not want to get involved. Turkey and some other arab states are supporting the rebels against Bashar-al-Asad.

I don't see any "Obvious" reason why Israel (Being the strongest military power in the region) cannot even accept innocent victims and give them a "Safe space".

BDBoy - Perhaps you can explain to me just where the idea of 'we can't help them because they're not Jewish' entered into your thinking?

YOU are referring to the Syrians' being nonJews as a possible 'obvious reason'.    WHY would you ever think that?