The most commonly cited ingredient is the human moral sense — the sense that there is such a thing as right and wrong, along with some intuitions about which is which. Even some believers who claim to be Darwinians say that the moral sense will forever defy the explanatory power of natural selection and so leave a special place for God in human creation.

Evolution means that those life-forms that adapt to their changing environments live and those that do not die.  All animals are suited to certain conditions and not others.  A species either has the gene pool containing traits needed to adapt at the same rate as conditions change or it goes extinct. If conditions change faster than or beyond the genome expression, it goes extinct.

Human beings have free will and their moral sense is really a form of the willingness to adapt to changing conditions. Those that do survive, and those that cling to old ways that are not suited for life die.  Free will is a constant in the human species, but at an individual level, the moral sense and societial and economic evolution and adaptation are interactive.

We need to adapt knowledge or else we are left behind.  If you still have a TV with an analog signal, you don’t have TV.  It’s digital only now.  You either learn computers or you are stuck in a rut. You either have a car or are limited to public transportation.  You either eat healthy and don’t smoke or you undermine your health.  You watch what you spend or else you end up in bankruptcy.

These actions express a will to live. You constantly seek to adapt yourself to those which sustains your life. Failure to adapt means slow decline.  Look at the auto industry. The rest of the world has weak or no unions. Their autos thrive in quality and sales. Detroit is a basket case.

We have to get rid of the welfare-state or else America will be unfit to live and overrun by the lowest order, the brazenly ignorant, brazenly lazy, and brazenly violent.

If we have a will to live, we have to keep up with what our survival, happiness, and enjoyment demand. Or else we loose our quality of life. Just look at Albany, New York.  It has become a cesspool of vagrants and thugs.There is no strategy to make it a livable city, except pour more government into it. The population collapsed from 1950 to now by 30%.  Mostly, this is attributable to the demolition of the city center to erect the South Mall government complex, the dozens of welfare buildings on the north and south ends of the city, creating a welfare-state corridor. So, out goes the productive element of the city and in comes the social pariah.

Lorenz Kraus c 2009

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