Cooperation or Chaos

As it was pointed out in class: even in competition there must be cooperation. Any sport or game must have rules, even the most brutal of competitions. Think of why cheating is so frowned upon. By making the odds unfairly in your favor it destroys any attempts of cooperation. It removes any test of skills or strength and instead the competition becomes another pointless bout of survival. You can also observe this outside of  any game or sport. Take the market system as an example. By every business or product theoretically having the same opportunities, consumers are allowed to choose which product they purchase. The competition comes into play with commercials and general advertising as well simply making the best product possible. If a company decides to completely destroy, or make it impossible for another company to produce, then the cooperation is broken. Also, as many know, competition, and therefore cooperativeness, helps the quality and prices of products. There simply cannot be competition without cooperation. Other wise it is chaos.

Intelligence and Technology

In class the idea that technology is causing people to be increasingly less intelligent or knowledge able. I do not think this is true. Consider how much information has been made accessible by technology. Of course there are books filled with information, and they still hold great value, but the amount of information that has been made available to the masses over the internet is almost miraculous. Technology has also acted as a medium to a better understanding, and knowledge of other countries. Although many people remain rather ignorant of other cultures there is no doubt that we are moving forward.
Technology however, by allowing people to accomplish tasks faster, has given people more time to spend as they wish. The problem comes into play when people chose to spend their extra hours goofing off instead of continuing to expand their knowledge in some manner.

Traits Against Us

When talking about Darwin's theory of natural selection people often tend to think of the traits of a parent  being passed down to the offspring helping them to survive. I know that personally (and I bet many others have done so to) I used to forget about the idea of bad traits or genes being passed to the next generation, such as being more likely to drink or have certain diseases. I wonder if this is in fact part of natural selection. It a harsh thought, that part of humanity may be systematically diminished, but then again many of the individuals still manage to have children and pass on the gene.