The necessity, and benefits, of destruction

Because life builds on life, there cannot be life without death. Traditional Western ethics, however, professes to be against destruction, pursuing the goal of eliminating war, disaster, and disease, and using peace to perpetuate and refine the economic, political, social, and moral order as it exists in the world today.

But this world is not appropriate. This world, and its public morals, are designed to suit those who foolishly derive a sense of meaning from the assumption that there is a personified God who will guarantee eternal life to those who praise him and follow a collection of rules presumed to be derived from him.

Or they derive a sense of meaning from the idea of an abstract good (a sort of theoretical God) of which they are an eternal part.

Albert Einstein’s “Cosmic Religion”

http://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/science_cosmicreligion.htm

Spinoza – pantheist

http://www.pantheism.net/paul/history/spinoza.htm

A philosophy based on biological understanding offers a radically different perspective. Such a philosophy recognizes that only the fulfillment of biological desires makes life worthwhile.

Pleasure Systems in the Brain

http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/ARUreport01.htm

The English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once noted: The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/footnotes_plato.html

Indeed, Plato wrote intelligently on the role of desires and satisfaction, or the connected term “pleasure”.

Stanford University on Plato and pleasure

://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pleasure/" rel="nofollow">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pleasure/

Epicurus elaborated more profoundly on the topic.

Epicurus – Types of desire

http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/epicur.htm#SH5c

A shortcoming of Epicurus, or of the translation and interpretation of his work, is the lack of emphasis he places on sexual desires and their satisfaction. Possible explanations are that either sexual satisfaction was so taken for granted in his time that it did not need to be discussed, or that the topic was not considered fit for literature and polite discourse (as was the case throughout later history).

Nevertheless, from a modern perspective, the essence of biological desires is sexual. Only sexual arousal, sexual excitement, and sexual satisfaction provide a natural sense of value in life. In principle, everything else is only supportive.

An appropriate social order would be one in which success is rewarded with sexual gratification. Actually, this is the biological order that is in place for any animal species except humans, because only humans are intelligent enough to be prone to believing in God or an abstract eternal good.