On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Robert Gordon wrote:
> I mean…why not just let evolution and Natural selection do their
> work?
>
> Why try to interfere with it by proposing the concept of "selfish-
> genes" and ‘selfish-memes"?
>
> I mean…if genes and memes are selfish…so what? Why should that
> disturb us? After all its "just the way things are"…the natural course
> of evolution.
>
> Why try to fight it?
Because I'd rather not die of natural causes prematurely, or live an unhappy life I'm driven to by instinct or advertising.
--Eva