On Excellence as Morality - Part 9 and Last

G. Conclusion

We humans are moral creatures. We require morality to govern our actions and interactions.

We humans need to adjust our morality as we advance along the path that evolution has steered us into. We are constantly required to reassess our actions with an eye to the road ahead. The rules of interaction that are mired in convention, history, and narrow-mindedness will subvert efforts to overcome a new test from nature. What are today considered acceptable practices should never be left unquestionably chiseled into a granite-hard code of conduct for all, ad infinitum.

A more open, malleable moral process is imperative now because we humans are at a precarious point on that path. We need to advance ourselves so that we can overcome all the threats that nature has yet to throw at us. I mentioned the asteroid possibility before, but another more deadly, if less dramatic, threat of the finite resources of the planet earth becoming insufficient to sustain our growing population. Can we be assured that an unexpected bacterial mutation might never arise that overwhelms our medical capabilities?

But that ain’t the only threat.

We need to advance so that we can identify and eliminate any internal strife that threatens to slit the wrists of our evolution and flush us into the cesspool of extinction. The Manhattan Project previously noted the development of a new technology that has been threatening the annihilation of life on earth since its development. Hundreds of people died and were poisoned from the joint technological catastrophes of Chernobel and Bhopal. Thousands die every year from military conflicts whose root cause is the greed for money and power manifest at some level in every country on earth today. Development of emerging energy technologies has been stifled by the political power of oil companies. Acres of oxygen producing trees are sacrificed every day to free land for human habitation and consumption. Isn’t it enough of a trial to overcome the threats to our survival and evolution that nature has in store for us without us exclusively skewing our technological developments toward heaping power and money into the hands of a short-sighted and greedy segment of our population.

To recognize the threats is the first step in survival, but to thrive we need to recognize the opportunities. Opportunities to advance the overall excellence of humanity. In this way we energize the motor of our advancement through the evolutionary path God has mapped out for whatever life form that successfully navigates the tests endemic in nature.

We advance ourselves through the pursuit of excellence, as individuals and as a community. Working for Security, Courage, Justice, Tolerance, and Celebration in our communities will instigate excellence.

Inclusion is power, exclusion is suicide.