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If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

Robert J. Sawyer

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Robert J. Sawyer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 29
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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The true God is not a form idealized he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.
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