Did the electrican wrap some power cables around it?
That's what I'd guess. If you read the actual article and research the case a little (yeah, yeah, I know, I know) you find out that the house has a laundry list of defects that indicate massive builder incompetence. They've probably got 120vac lines wound around a spool in the wall behind the TV, because the electrician was too drunk to unwind it.
Check this out, though, from the complaint:
By signing the contracts, the buyers agreed to waive claims for repairs except those specifically mentioned in a separate document, which was available for inspection at a separate location and not before or at the time they bought the houses.
These people displayed a level of moronism and susceptibility to salesdroid brainwashing that's really staggering. This gets down to the usual slashdot argument of "should people have to live by caveat emptor in an age when it's impossible for the average joe to know everything about everything, or is it legitimate for tax-supported government to mandate a certain level of integrity on the part of sellers in order to serve the common good?"
I hate to advocate saving people from their own stupidity, but if we don't, then vicious amoral predators will band together to fleece the weakest and end up subverting government to concentrate all wealth and power in the hands of the most corrupt and... Oh, wait. Yeah, right, never mind, I guess.
You are attempting to argue through the presentation of data derived from direct observation.
That's science. You will find that does not work as a mode of argument.
Get somebody famous (like Stephen Hawking or Snooki) to say you are right and it won't matter if you've misinterpreted your data or not. That always works better than the scientific method (observing reality, formulating hypotheses and making experiments) for convincing people of things on the Internet.
PS: Incidentally, if it was an original IBM PC/XT or something similar, there may have been wirewound inductors on the mobo that were close enough to the case to be tweaked by a fridge magnet. You probably wouldn't see anything like that in a modern computer.
I have been approached by another company that is much bigger, and they have offered me a pay rise of [funny Anglic money] to do the same job, plus their office is practically outside my front door (as opposed to my current 45 minute commute each way). This would make a massive difference to my life. That said, I can't help but feel that to leave now would be betraying my friends and colleagues. Some friends have told me that I'm just being 'soft' - however I think I'm being loyal. Any advice?"
Absolutely. First, listen to your gut. If you think it would be a betrayal, that's because it would be, in some sense.
So: tell the new company you are going to need an extra two weeks to finish up at the old one, and that you'd extend the same courtesy to them if they were in the same predicament. Because you're honest and loyal.
If the new company is really worth working for, they will say "damn straight skippy, we'd sure like to have you sooner but this just proves we were right to choose you!". If the new company is really a bunch of backstabbing rapacious bastards who have every intention of using you up and throwing you away at their earliest convenience, they will say "Oh, no, it's our way or the highway, you insignificant peon". In which case you don't really want to work for them, it just seems that way right now.
So, assuming the new company is worth working for, and they give you the extra two weeks, you then go back to the old company and tell them "look, unless you are moving the whole business to be next door to my house, you can't match these guys' offer. But I negotiated an extra two weeks out of them so that I can help you get the new guys up to speed - so let's get doing that, now".
People (reasonable people, anyway) understand that you need to do what's right for you, and will appreciate the extra effort you've put into trying to accommodate others' needs too.
there is no way in hell you just sat down at a CLI of an unfamiliar OS and said "Hmmm...how do I do this task I've never done before? I know its BEGIN{FS=":";Ct=0;getline;Ts=$3};{if ($3!=Ts){print $3;Ts=$3;Ct++}}'/var/lib/ldap/replica/slurpd.status!!"
I grabbed that specific command out of the shell history file on one of the linux systems where I have root, so you're right about this particular instance; it was not an unfamiliar OS. I originally composed it because no tool (GUI or otherwise) existed that would find replica disynchrony in a massively redundant multi-host multi-OS OpenLDAP installation that was designed and built before syncrepl existed. So I wrote one on the fly, out of my head, which is the raw power of CLI at work - it's not simple replication or "copypasta", it's a conduit for creativity.
And I've done the same sort of thing on OS/390, OS/400, and Apollo Domain operating systems without any training whatsoever from anyone. It is what I do, it is the special skill set that earns my daily bread. It the case of the Apollo system, I actually had to hack the entire OS from a cold start - no passwords, no manuals, no prior experience, no Internet, just hardware console access and the power of the scientific method. It took three weeks, so roughly 120 hours. I got root on the third day, as I recall, but it was a long time ago. I must have rebooted that system a thousand times, trying to find a keyboard interrupt that would stop bootstrap before a password prompt came up.
Now, in the case of the command we quoted, I have internalized the entire syntax of the gawk language, yes, certainly, just as an author internalizes the structure of a natural language. You are right about that too; it is mostly just rote memorization, no different from learning how to unmount a disk drive in the MacOS GUI. But when a poet makes a poem (or a coder writes code) he creates something new - when a person learns to unmount a disk, he hasn't created anything, he just learned a trick.
There's a level beyond mere memorization (that is not reachable from a GUI) that involves building new things. The composite recurve bow is not a trivial restatement of a bent tree branch, it's a creative work. Yes, the bowyer needed to memorize lots of tricks, like how to select wood for a task and how to bend horn and how to clean sinew, but that doesn't reduce the thing he created to a mere set of selections from a mental menu.
Is there a GUI to find and install drivers?
Yes, some versions of Ubuntu at least have this.
How about a GUI for video errors similar to windows safe mode?
Most distros use the CLI for "safe mode" but yes this exists too.
Hell even with the wireless network GUI I found that often the damned thing wouldn't work...
I have never seen a linux networking GUI that wasn't an abomination that should be staked through the heart and buried at a crossroads, but I think there will eventually be one. Someday. It might even end up being a high version of NM but I truly doubt it.
I use linux as a tool to do other things, and have no interest in selling anything to a mass market. So while your opinion of linux is clearly valid from your point of view as a retail systems provider, I personally don't care if nobody but me finds it useful. And I think that's what you are running into - people like RMS (and to a lesser extent, me) aren't interested in achieving your goals, because we don't share them.
Your dislike of rude and inconsiderate people in forums is understandable. I got turned off to *nix in general in the 1970s because of the attitude and behaviour of people who I'd asked for help. That turned out to be a good thing in the end, since now I don't care about OSes any more, I just use whatever is in front of me at the moment.
But, the point is, the phenomenon of cold fusion itself is not really as far outside mainstream science in the way something like ESP or Psychokinesis is, because we can point to fusion in one place, and we are just talking about whether it could happen somehow under somewhat different circumstances somewhere else, circumstances which have not been widely explored before.
Your writing is very dense and detailed. I like that, myself; I am content-driven so facile sound-bites and similar memetic tricks are annoying to me. But I read translations of ancient literature for fun, so I think you can pretty much assume that if I like it the mainstream of humanity will find it too long and won't read it.
Not meaning any disagreement with the concepts you've expressed in your letter, obviously, just volunteering some (hopefully) constructive literary criticism.
Parsing what you just posted, you've made one of two claims.
Either you've claimed that every person who worships at the feet of James Randi is never wrong (no matter how mentally ill that person may be) or you are claiming that Jesus, Ron Paul and James Randi have never made any irreconcilably conflicting statements and everything they've said is consistently "proven right" (since Ron Paul has openly modified his positions several times over the years, you've got an irreconcilable problem just with him alone).
Do you want to modify your statement, or are you happy to have proven my point?
elilo is a fundamentally different beast than lilo. The name is the only thing in common.
Care to elaborate?
I'm very curious, since it seems to me that the ability to boot a kernel is something elilo and lilo clearly have in common. What is different, other than the code rewrite required by the difference between EFI vs BIOS? Does elilo recognize filesystems?
Ah, see, but you applied skepticism and the scientific method to Internet skeptics.
They hate that. They don't want people to stop believing things on faith, they just want to change the target of that unwavering faith. You must worship Dawkins, not your primitive desert fetish, and you must believe Randi, and not your ignorant preacher.
The above was typed only half tongue-in-cheek. I feel the same way about James Randi as I feel about Jesus Christ and Ron Paul - sure, I can respect the man himself, but his posse seems to include a lot of delusional, arrogant lunatics.
You made an absolute statement. I provided a single verifiable data point (which is probably repeatable over thousands of individuals reading your post) that disproves it. Referring to data you don't like as "anecdotal" won't make your absolute statement correct.
Avoiding making statements you cannot prove to be correct is the first step towards the scientific method, I think.
I'm not going to defend people being rude and unhelpful in forums; I've seen too much of that myself. I always wonder why those people don't find something better to do with their time.
GUIs reward exploration and learning of new tasks, CLI is strictly for repetition and copypasta.
Hmm. To me, GUIs are just menus. They let you select from things other people created. CLIs, on the other hand, are where creativity is focused into the act of creation - it is not possible to create a new computing paradigm without typing characters in a text editor or near equivalent. True innovation in computer science comes from programming, which is a fundamentally character-based, non-graphical activity. The only way to "program" without typing code is not really programming, it's just gluing together code other people created.
I like to be able to do these kinds of commands: omshowu -n local-network-id |gawk -F/ '/^SIS/{print $4}'
or this: gawk 'BEGIN{FS=":";Ct=0;getline;Ts=$3};{if ($3!=Ts){print $3;Ts=$3;Ct++}}'/var/lib/ldap/replica/slurpd.status
I occasionally type out commands that line-wrap three or four times, but would not be possible at all in any GUI.
That said, for every programmer there are probably a thousand users. So focusing on the needs of the larger group is not stupid. And as you say, GUIs are very useful for flattening a learning curve, because they directly and immediately reward exploration. GUIs are also very good for graphic arts and similar non-character based end-user activities.
So, in a hypothetical future scenario where grub won't work, LILO won't work either? Doesn't seem like a big problem to me. In the real world, both bootloaders will probably get support for your hypothetical filesystem long before most people ever need it.
People have already pointed out that having to run/sbin/lilo at kernel update time is hardly a big deal. You could run it automagically off an inotify hook if you are really incapable of typing five keystrokes. Red Hat automated the process inside their software updates a decade ago, before they switched over to grub. And can you call it a "fail" if you forget to do something, but you can trivially fix it in a single boot cycle? Try dealing with a corrupt grub stage 2 some time - you'll be doing more than just running/sbin/lilo.
Use grub if you want to. Everybody should use their own favorite tools! But don't pretend there's anything functionally wrong with LILO - it's just a simpler tool, that doesn't have enough bells and whistles to suit your particular preferences. Nothing wrong with having choices...
Gatto says the point of public education is to produce identically trained, docile workers; suitable for cannon fodder or wage slavery. He quotes John D. Rockefeller's LETTER NO 1. OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD: "We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, statesmen, politicians, creatures of whom we have ample supply.
And, of course, the "liberals" had little or nothing to do with it. It was plutocrats, mostly. According to Gatto, anyway.
I use the command line in Windows XP nearly every day.
I don't even know the GUI equivalent of "ipconfig/all" much less use it.
I'd agree with your general point, that Windows is for people who are not technical (mass market) and linux is for highly technical folks (tiny niche market) and I certainly agree that people should not be quoted out of context... but your anti-linux rant has kind of turned me off to this whole discussion.
We've been looking at a plan-b in case oracle screws up java beyond use. Right now it looks like Erlang.
Well, if a thousand unbelievably crappy, unstable, and resource-inefficient erlang programs hit the streets in a couple of years, I'll know it wasn't actually the Java language that was the problem after all, it was the Java programmers. Which is what I suspect, frankly.
I think I see what you are getting at. But while I do agree that our mind is deeply shaped by our past evolution, I still see no reason to accept the proposition that morality is determined by our survival instincts.
It seems to me that what you are describing is the total absence of morality - the "anything that works" complete amorality of the non-sentient animals and human sociopaths.
You still haven't explained why you explicitly equated morality with species survival.
Nothing you've said (yet) justifies that. If you say "gasoline and oranges are the same thing", and I object, telling me that gasoline burns or that cars run on gasoline is not addressing my objection.
Why does it matter if I survive or not? My morals are independent of my own survival, and independent of the survival of my species. The categorical imperative (for example) does not require a human mind in order to exist.
I think some of what you'd like to see is happening; now that (most of) the world no longer tolerates Christians and Muslims purposely suppressing or destroying entire peoples and cultures in the name of Yahweh, we are starting to see a greater Hindu and Buddhist influence in our culture. Hinduism is a big boat, and certainly has intolerant and dogmatic sects, but it also has a history of flexing and growing over time. Buddism is much the same.
No, survival is far more valid than "God said it, God made it so".
Why? Because you say so? You offer nothing in support of this. You sound just like a fundamentalist - "This is so because it is so, no argument allowed".
Don't kill your children, or that it's for your genes. Make your children strong, and there'll be a lot more of your genes out there.
So what? Who cares? I adopt children and do my best to raise them to be strong, although I'm not infertile. Absolutely not kidding... no biological relationship. Yet, my children and I are reasonably happy and fulfilled, so I am achieving my objectives. Why should I care about your arbitrary objectives, or about continuation of my DNA? I shelter homeless cats, too - not even the same species as me, much less genetically related.
What you are advocating isn't philosophy, and it's very close to sociopathy. Don't mistake a lack of understanding of other people's motivations and philosophy for some sort of deep insight.
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That's what I'd guess. If you read the actual article and research the case a little (yeah, yeah, I know, I know) you find out that the house has a laundry list of defects that indicate massive builder incompetence. They've probably got 120vac lines wound around a spool in the wall behind the TV, because the electrician was too drunk to unwind it.
Check this out, though, from the complaint:
These people displayed a level of moronism and susceptibility to salesdroid brainwashing that's really staggering. This gets down to the usual slashdot argument of "should people have to live by caveat emptor in an age when it's impossible for the average joe to know everything about everything, or is it legitimate for tax-supported government to mandate a certain level of integrity on the part of sellers in order to serve the common good?"
I hate to advocate saving people from their own stupidity, but if we don't, then vicious amoral predators will band together to fleece the weakest and end up subverting government to concentrate all wealth and power in the hands of the most corrupt and... Oh, wait. Yeah, right, never mind, I guess.
You are attempting to argue through the presentation of data derived from direct observation.
That's science. You will find that does not work as a mode of argument.
Get somebody famous (like Stephen Hawking or Snooki) to say you are right and it won't matter if you've misinterpreted your data or not. That always works better than the scientific method (observing reality, formulating hypotheses and making experiments) for convincing people of things on the Internet.
PS: Incidentally, if it was an original IBM PC/XT or something similar, there may have been wirewound inductors on the mobo that were close enough to the case to be tweaked by a fridge magnet. You probably wouldn't see anything like that in a modern computer.
Absolutely. First, listen to your gut. If you think it would be a betrayal, that's because it would be, in some sense.
So: tell the new company you are going to need an extra two weeks to finish up at the old one, and that you'd extend the same courtesy to them if they were in the same predicament. Because you're honest and loyal.
If the new company is really worth working for, they will say "damn straight skippy, we'd sure like to have you sooner but this just proves we were right to choose you!". If the new company is really a bunch of backstabbing rapacious bastards who have every intention of using you up and throwing you away at their earliest convenience, they will say "Oh, no, it's our way or the highway, you insignificant peon". In which case you don't really want to work for them, it just seems that way right now.
So, assuming the new company is worth working for, and they give you the extra two weeks, you then go back to the old company and tell them "look, unless you are moving the whole business to be next door to my house, you can't match these guys' offer. But I negotiated an extra two weeks out of them so that I can help you get the new guys up to speed - so let's get doing that, now".
People (reasonable people, anyway) understand that you need to do what's right for you, and will appreciate the extra effort you've put into trying to accommodate others' needs too.
I grabbed that specific command out of the shell history file on one of the linux systems where I have root, so you're right about this particular instance; it was not an unfamiliar OS. I originally composed it because no tool (GUI or otherwise) existed that would find replica disynchrony in a massively redundant multi-host multi-OS OpenLDAP installation that was designed and built before syncrepl existed. So I wrote one on the fly, out of my head, which is the raw power of CLI at work - it's not simple replication or "copypasta", it's a conduit for creativity.
And I've done the same sort of thing on OS/390, OS/400, and Apollo Domain operating systems without any training whatsoever from anyone. It is what I do, it is the special skill set that earns my daily bread. It the case of the Apollo system, I actually had to hack the entire OS from a cold start - no passwords, no manuals, no prior experience, no Internet, just hardware console access and the power of the scientific method. It took three weeks, so roughly 120 hours. I got root on the third day, as I recall, but it was a long time ago. I must have rebooted that system a thousand times, trying to find a keyboard interrupt that would stop bootstrap before a password prompt came up.
Now, in the case of the command we quoted, I have internalized the entire syntax of the gawk language, yes, certainly, just as an author internalizes the structure of a natural language. You are right about that too; it is mostly just rote memorization, no different from learning how to unmount a disk drive in the MacOS GUI. But when a poet makes a poem (or a coder writes code) he creates something new - when a person learns to unmount a disk, he hasn't created anything, he just learned a trick.
There's a level beyond mere memorization (that is not reachable from a GUI) that involves building new things. The composite recurve bow is not a trivial restatement of a bent tree branch, it's a creative work. Yes, the bowyer needed to memorize lots of tricks, like how to select wood for a task and how to bend horn and how to clean sinew, but that doesn't reduce the thing he created to a mere set of selections from a mental menu.
Yes, some versions of Ubuntu at least have this.
Most distros use the CLI for "safe mode" but yes this exists too.
I have never seen a linux networking GUI that wasn't an abomination that should be staked through the heart and buried at a crossroads, but I think there will eventually be one. Someday. It might even end up being a high version of NM but I truly doubt it.
I use linux as a tool to do other things, and have no interest in selling anything to a mass market. So while your opinion of linux is clearly valid from your point of view as a retail systems provider, I personally don't care if nobody but me finds it useful. And I think that's what you are running into - people like RMS (and to a lesser extent, me) aren't interested in achieving your goals, because we don't share them.
Your dislike of rude and inconsiderate people in forums is understandable. I got turned off to *nix in general in the 1970s because of the attitude and behaviour of people who I'd asked for help. That turned out to be a good thing in the end, since now I don't care about OSes any more, I just use whatever is in front of me at the moment.
I liked this line:
Your writing is very dense and detailed. I like that, myself; I am content-driven so facile sound-bites and similar memetic tricks are annoying to me. But I read translations of ancient literature for fun, so I think you can pretty much assume that if I like it the mainstream of humanity will find it too long and won't read it.
Not meaning any disagreement with the concepts you've expressed in your letter, obviously, just volunteering some (hopefully) constructive literary criticism.
Parsing what you just posted, you've made one of two claims.
Either you've claimed that every person who worships at the feet of James Randi is never wrong (no matter how mentally ill that person may be) or you are claiming that Jesus, Ron Paul and James Randi have never made any irreconcilably conflicting statements and everything they've said is consistently "proven right" (since Ron Paul has openly modified his positions several times over the years, you've got an irreconcilable problem just with him alone).
Do you want to modify your statement, or are you happy to have proven my point?
Care to elaborate?
I'm very curious, since it seems to me that the ability to boot a kernel is something elilo and lilo clearly have in common. What is different, other than the code rewrite required by the difference between EFI vs BIOS? Does elilo recognize filesystems?
Ah, see, but you applied skepticism and the scientific method to Internet skeptics.
They hate that. They don't want people to stop believing things on faith, they just want to change the target of that unwavering faith. You must worship Dawkins, not your primitive desert fetish, and you must believe Randi, and not your ignorant preacher.
The above was typed only half tongue-in-cheek. I feel the same way about James Randi as I feel about Jesus Christ and Ron Paul - sure, I can respect the man himself, but his posse seems to include a lot of delusional, arrogant lunatics.
You made an absolute statement. I provided a single verifiable data point (which is probably repeatable over thousands of individuals reading your post) that disproves it. Referring to data you don't like as "anecdotal" won't make your absolute statement correct.
Avoiding making statements you cannot prove to be correct is the first step towards the scientific method, I think.
I'm not going to defend people being rude and unhelpful in forums; I've seen too much of that myself. I always wonder why those people don't find something better to do with their time.
Hmm. To me, GUIs are just menus. They let you select from things other people created. CLIs, on the other hand, are where creativity is focused into the act of creation - it is not possible to create a new computing paradigm without typing characters in a text editor or near equivalent. True innovation in computer science comes from programming, which is a fundamentally character-based, non-graphical activity. The only way to "program" without typing code is not really programming, it's just gluing together code other people created.
I like to be able to do these kinds of commands:
omshowu -n local-network-id |gawk -F/ '/^SIS/{print $4}'
or this: /var/lib/ldap/replica/slurpd.status
gawk 'BEGIN{FS=":";Ct=0;getline;Ts=$3};{if ($3!=Ts){print $3;Ts=$3;Ct++}}'
I occasionally type out commands that line-wrap three or four times, but would not be possible at all in any GUI.
That said, for every programmer there are probably a thousand users. So focusing on the needs of the larger group is not stupid. And as you say, GUIs are very useful for flattening a learning curve, because they directly and immediately reward exploration. GUIs are also very good for graphic arts and similar non-character based end-user activities.
So, in a hypothetical future scenario where grub won't work, LILO won't work either? Doesn't seem like a big problem to me. In the real world, both bootloaders will probably get support for your hypothetical filesystem long before most people ever need it.
People have already pointed out that having to run /sbin/lilo at kernel update time is hardly a big deal. You could run it automagically off an inotify hook if you are really incapable of typing five keystrokes. Red Hat automated the process inside their software updates a decade ago, before they switched over to grub. And can you call it a "fail" if you forget to do something, but you can trivially fix it in a single boot cycle? Try dealing with a corrupt grub stage 2 some time - you'll be doing more than just running /sbin/lilo.
As for EFI, there's been a version of LILO available for it since 2008 (actually much earlier, but official release in 2008).
Use grub if you want to. Everybody should use their own favorite tools! But don't pretend there's anything functionally wrong with LILO - it's just a simpler tool, that doesn't have enough bells and whistles to suit your particular preferences. Nothing wrong with having choices...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders
Enjoy.
I prefer a CLI, myself. GUIs are too slow for me, I type very fast.
But no, I certainly don't use start>run to launch programs in windows.
Do you normally have need to move your kernel around? If so, just remember to run /sbin/lilo afterwards, and you are done.
If you can't remember that, just boot some other media, chroot to your borked installation, and run /sbin/lilo. All fixed!
Grub's fine if you like big complex solutions to simple little problems, I guess. We use it at work because the big distros ship it.
John Taylor Gatto might be a good start.
http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm
Gatto says the point of public education is to produce identically trained, docile workers; suitable for cannon fodder or wage slavery. He quotes John D. Rockefeller's LETTER NO 1. OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD: "We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, statesmen, politicians, creatures of whom we have ample supply.
And, of course, the "liberals" had little or nothing to do with it. It was plutocrats, mostly. According to Gatto, anyway.
Meanwhile, LILO still works just fine, despite being incredibly simple and elegant.
I don't think I'll ever understand the rationale behind the switch to GRUB.
I use the command line in Windows XP nearly every day.
I don't even know the GUI equivalent of "ipconfig /all" much less use it.
I'd agree with your general point, that Windows is for people who are not technical (mass market) and linux is for highly technical folks (tiny niche market) and I certainly agree that people should not be quoted out of context... but your anti-linux rant has kind of turned me off to this whole discussion.
Is that you, Eric Bogle?
Well, if a thousand unbelievably crappy, unstable, and resource-inefficient erlang programs hit the streets in a couple of years, I'll know it wasn't actually the Java language that was the problem after all, it was the Java programmers. Which is what I suspect, frankly.
I think I see what you are getting at. But while I do agree that our mind is deeply shaped by our past evolution, I still see no reason to accept the proposition that morality is determined by our survival instincts.
It seems to me that what you are describing is the total absence of morality - the "anything that works" complete amorality of the non-sentient animals and human sociopaths.
Nobody tested me, I am male, your logic fails.
Classic pseudoscience.
You still haven't explained why you explicitly equated morality with species survival.
Nothing you've said (yet) justifies that. If you say "gasoline and oranges are the same thing", and I object, telling me that gasoline burns or that cars run on gasoline is not addressing my objection.
Why does it matter if I survive or not? My morals are independent of my own survival, and independent of the survival of my species. The categorical imperative (for example) does not require a human mind in order to exist.
I think some of what you'd like to see is happening; now that (most of) the world no longer tolerates Christians and Muslims purposely suppressing or destroying entire peoples and cultures in the name of Yahweh, we are starting to see a greater Hindu and Buddhist influence in our culture. Hinduism is a big boat, and certainly has intolerant and dogmatic sects, but it also has a history of flexing and growing over time. Buddism is much the same.
Why? Because you say so? You offer nothing in support of this. You sound just like a fundamentalist - "This is so because it is so, no argument allowed".
So what? Who cares? I adopt children and do my best to raise them to be strong, although I'm not infertile. Absolutely not kidding... no biological relationship. Yet, my children and I are reasonably happy and fulfilled, so I am achieving my objectives. Why should I care about your arbitrary objectives, or about continuation of my DNA? I shelter homeless cats, too - not even the same species as me, much less genetically related.
What you are advocating isn't philosophy, and it's very close to sociopathy. Don't mistake a lack of understanding of other people's motivations and philosophy for some sort of deep insight.
Print 'em out and let your mom hang 'em on the wall.
It worked for the Ogre of Merion!
Barnes' scorn for the art "conservation" techniques of his day eventually turned out to be correct.