The purpose of life is life, and, accordingly, the ideal human being is the ideal mate.

We better the world by our every increase.Photo by: Nattu

We better the world by our every increase.

Photo by: Nattu

We best express our nature as human beings by best expressing our nature as rational, choosing organisms.

Accordingly the ideal human being is the person who best realizes everything that it means to be human. Not the best business tycoon. Not the best lab rat. Certainly not the best show pony. The ideal human being deploys the drive we acquired from rational consciousness to perfect the drives we inherited from nature.

We do not cease to be organisms because we have discovered that we are organisms. To the contrary, it is our ability to identify and to choose that makes us best able to realize our organic destiny, to better the world by our every increase. This is a philosophical defense of how to choose the best mate, surely an appropriate topic for church:

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