All animals have a primary way of thinking. Escape (or eat), or get eaten. Eat, or die. Plants also have this existential imperative. Animals and plants are forever contending to maintain their niche in the ecosystem. So, almost every breath they take is a fight for survival. If they can keep it going, then things are great. The sun keeps shining. ( Read more... )

Perhaps 90% of all altruism is narcissism-for-the-species. Maybe another 5% is narcissism for all creation. And then another 5% would be pure godliness. Something around there like that ( Read more... )

The 15th Amendment: All people are born equal: black or white, X or Y chromosome, straight or gay -  or having a brain born transsexual - or other ( Read more... )