Cogito Ergo Sum, Descartes' Famous Term Paper

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Improvement" is not necessarily implied, because humans do not currently possess an understanding of the environment sufficient to ensure that "improvements" do not become counterproductive; however, attempts to correct human damage is at times appropriate, when the scenario is simple enough.

The necessity of accepting this precedent transcends the mere logical. In truth, it is the only precedent that can be accepted, because for all that humans revel in their marvelous gray lumps of forebrain, the bulk of their processing still takes place in a far more animal portion of their mind. "High ethical thought," defined for the moment as thought which contradicts animal reaction, will almost certainly be dismissed. The majority of listeners will applaud the lofty sentiment, and then dismiss it as implausible -- implausible, in this instance, defined as "undesirable" -- and the remaining minority will not be the bourgeoisie, who have already acceded that the lofty is fated for sacrifice on the altar of the practical, but the plebeians, who welcome any and all ideas that offer the promise of momentary alliance to distract from the reality of monotony.

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An alliance which, by virtue of its creation, has a great deal of circular momentum, and of forward momentum almost none at all.

Thus, while humans should (and, what is more important, may be convinced to) be prudent stewards of their environment, any effort to aid other species should begin and end as academic, serving, as all else, only to further the human race in its ability to survive, adapt, and propagate......

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