They are claims to be allowed to take part in the reproductive struggle. Insofar as we fail, we fail, and as long as we were not artificially restricted in our attempt we have no cause for complaint. . . . Surely, you say, we should not give in to relativism and suggest that they are simply local preferences without universal validity. At least I hope you are saying that, because that pernicious doctrine has achieved a sinister grip among the scribbling classes. Yet the two trends are not unrelated.
Logic is usually the first fatality in ideological warfare.
Many of them are peculiar to the Christian tradition. We have looked at some of the former. We should be able to accrue resources so as to take part in the reproductive struggle. The winners will be rewarded, but they will be rewarded if they cheat as well as if they play fair. They will be rewarded if they kill and torture, if that is what gets more of their genes into the pool.