Why Vii

By John Weyland

This book consists of eighty-six. They are meant to say something new about the subjects dealt with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496959188

John Weyland

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Contents

1 Why Is It Almost Everybody Believes In The Existence Of Morality

2 Why Was Kingship A Bad System

3 Why Does The Human Species Risk Bringing About Its Own Extinction

4 Medicine Has Learned How To Keep Human Beings Alive But Not How To Keep Them Living Normally

5 The Atrophy Of Estrus Made Women Obsessed With Their Appearance

6 There Is No Good Argument For Human Rights In Non-democratic Countries

7 Primitive Human Beings Did Not See The Purpose Of Death

8 Whatever Became Of Hell?

9 Liberals Are In Favor Of Doing What Reduces National Production

10 Presidents Don’t Lie?

11 If Organizations Cannot Be Argued With They Don’t Have To Have Good Arguments

12 Regulations Enable Governments To Extort Money From Businesses And Other Organizations

13 The Supreme Earth Goddess Should Have Reigned During The Agricultural Age

14 Thinking Anticipated The Scientific Method By Tens Of Thousands Of Years

15 Government Corruption Cannot Be Stopped

16 What’s So Great About The Poor?

17 Penance Was A New Idea In Religion

18 Old-fashioned Hoarding Benefited Others

19 Homosexuality

20 Why China Could Develop More Rapidly Than Any Other Country In History

21 War Has Not Been Given Its Due

22 Religion Kept Idealism From Disrupting Society

23 The Subconscious Determines Only A Small Part Of Behavior

24 Human Beings Brought Suffering On Themselves

25 Weapons Enabled Human Beings To Spread Over The World

26 Freud Was Opposed To Promiscuity

27 Bankers Should Have Been Intermediaries

28 Tanks Should Have Been Invented Before World War I

29 The Cause For Forbidding Suicide Is No Longer Present

30 The Opponents Of The Popular Vote Turned Out To Be Right

31 The Waiting Line

32 Older Human Beings No Longer Have A Function

33 Human Beings Developed Imagination So They Could Think—But It Deceived Them

34 Human Beings Are The Only Creatures Who Benefit From Competition

35 The Trouble With Research Is That It Does Not Provide The Answers

36 The Problem Of Evil Was Caused By Evolution

37 Children Make Languages Difficult

38 A One-party Country Like China Can Outproduce A Democracy Like The United States

39 Why There Is Not Large-scale Inflation In The United States

40 That The Planters Worst Nightmare Was A Slave-uprising Is Not True

41 Where Can Saving Come From When Interest Rates Are So Low

42 Because Shareholders Can Sell Their Stock

43 The Bankers’ Conspiracy

44 Minorities In The United States Make Free Speech Impossible

45 Prisoners Were Not Kept Alive In The Primitive Age

46 The Public Does Not Like How Competition Divides Up Wealth

47 What Is The Secret Of Life? What Is The Secret Of The Universe?

48 Democracy Works Badly Because So Many Of The Voters Refuse To Think

49 It Can Be Argued That Christianity Was The Best That Could Be Done

50 Creativity And The Second Life

51 Why Are Public Employees Overpaid?

52 Suicide Bombings Could Be Stopped

53 The Industrial Revolution Could Have Occurred Before The Birth Of Jesus

54 Does Bribery Worsen The Outcome?

55 Majority Support For Abortion Could Have Been Foreseen

56 It Was Thought Humanity Could Live Happily Ever After Once It Got Rid Of Religion

57 Who Determines Morality In The Modern World?

58 The Unseen Hand Does A Disservice

59 Living Off The Stupidity Of The Public Has Become Big Business In The United States

60 Physical Laborers Should Have Been Dying Out

61 Studying Is Like Saving

62 The Typical College Education Should Be Done Away With

63 Child Labor Laws Enabled Children To Become Literate

64 Have Any Of The Recent Popes Been Pedophiles?

65 The Purpose Of Life Is To Stay Alive

66 Why Wasn’t North America Heavily Populated When The Europeans Arrived?

67 Economics Has Never Come Up With A Way To End Depressions

68 Recent History Has Demonstrated The False Nature Of Morality

69 Forbidding Usury Was Not As Stupid As It Seems To The Modern World

70 How To Deal With The Problem Of Lack Of Evidence

71 Why Hasn’t Inflation Been Made Illegal?

72 Forgiveness Is For Children

73 Majorities Can Be Made To Support Moralities They Actually Oppose

74 Do Other Animals Think?

75 Competition Solved The Problem Of Selfishness

76 Democracy Is A Flawed System

77 Lying To The Public Is Not A Crime For Goverbments And Politicians

78 Playing Inspired Thinking

79 What Happened After The Civil War Was Inevitable

80 Hate Talk Against Whites By Minorities

81 Promiscuity In The South Seas Did Not Cause Infanticide

82 The Western World Was Never On The Gold Standard

83 There Is A Widespread Belief That When Money Is Circulating It Is Multiplying

84 Democracy Ended For Human Beings When They Started Living Together In Larger Groups

85 There Has Never Been Freedom Of Speech

86 War Brought Back The Dominant Male

1

Why Is It Almost Everybody Believes In The Existence Of Morality

Chapter 1

Why is it that almost everybody believes in the existence of morality?

Chapter 2

When morality obviously does not exist.

Chapter 3

It is because morality existed for them in childhood.

Chapter 4

Children are not born knowing how to behave. They have to be told.

For them morality exists. It is determined and enforced by adults.

Morality exists for them for a long time. Since human childhood lasts a long time. And that long time is the formative period of their lives. What they learn then stays with them.

Chapter 5

It used to be that morality could exist throughout life because of God.

God determined morality for adults. They knew what it was because He had told them.

But God has become unbelievable. Without Him absolute morality can no longer exist for adults.

Chapter 6

But adults refuse to accept the new situation.

They believed in the existence of morality in their childhood. And they were not wrong. Morality did exist in their childhood. Because there were adults in their lives who determined what it was and enforced it. That morality still exists for children. But it no longer exists for adults. There is nobody in their lives in determine what it is and enforce it.

It would seem easy to admit this. It is obvious. But adults cannot give up on the belief. When they say something is bad, they want bad to mean what it did when they were children. And the same with good. They do not want relative morality. They want absolute morality. And nobody can force them to give up their belief in it.

2

Why Was Kingship A Bad System

Chapter 1

Kingship was a bad system.

But it lasted thousands of years.

Why?

Chapter 2

Kingship was a bad system because kings did not have to qualify for their jobs.

They could be incompetent and irresponsible to almost any degree and still become and remain kings.

History is full of examples that bear this out.

Chapter 3

The sorry record of kings is all the more bizarre because of the praise that was heaped upon them during their lives.

Chapter 4

Kings did not have to qualify for their jobs because they inherited them. Nothing short of outright idiocy could disqualify them.

Chapter 5

Kingship came about because of agriculture.

Before agriculture human beings lived in small groups. Those groups were democratic because they were small. Majorities prevailed.

With agriculture the groups human beings lived in could become larger. And did.

How much larger depended upon the strength of the group. Because the strength determined how much more area they could acquire. The usual means of acquiring more area was war.

War required single leadership. Numbers do not make for strength. Organized numbers make for strength. It took single leadership to have organized numbers.

Chapter 6

Kingship could be temporary in the beginning. It could last only as long as a war. The other members of the group did not want kingship. They did not want to give one man that much power over them. It was only because of war that they did it.

But kingship soon became permanent. It was hard to take kingship away from a king. He had all the advantages of organized power. Others could conspire against him. That succeeded sometimes, but not often. Kings tended to remain kings.

But kings died. There could be a war for the succession. But that weakened the group. The risk then was that its enemies would conquer it. So a war for the succession was usually avoided. The successor was sometimes elected. This would seem to have been the sensible way to deal with the situation. A man of proven abilities could become the next king. But it did not work. The losers would not accept the choice. There would be a war. So what happened? The heir to the dead king became the new king. The succession was decided by heredity.

But heredity could produce a bad king. Everybody knew that. Everybody knew that the nature of children was unpredictable. Good kings did not necessarily produce good heirs.

But despite this inheritance became the accepted method of determining succession. It was bad but the alternative was worse. And—this was a big factor—the dead king left behind organized power. The men who made up that organized power wanted it to continue. Because they were benefiting from it. They did not want a new king with new followers. So they favored hereditary succession. And they had the power to make it happen.

3

Why Does The Human Species Risk Bringing About Its Own Extinction

Chapter 1

The human species risks bringing about its own extinction.

Chapter 2

The human species risks bringing about its own extinction because it can limit its numbers.

It seems to be bent on not replacing its numbers. If that happens, there will be no human beings left in a relatively short period of time.

Chapter 3

The consequences of birth control had not been foreseen. It was assumed that old habits would continue, and families would still more than reproduce themselves. This is no longer happening in the better-off parts of the world.

Chapter 4

When birth control was introduced, the argument for it was to spare women from having so many babies.

Women had had many babies throughout history. But most of them died soon after birth. All kinds of sickness were killing them. It was not until the 19th century that medicine began to make real progress. That ushered in the era of very large families. But this era did not last long.

Before then family sizes had fitted the circumstances. The ruling minorities opposed birth control because they wanted large numbers of workers and soldiers. If the numbers were too large, the excess could die off. The ruling minorities did not consider themselves responsible for keeping them alive.

The opposition to modern birth control was the usual opposition to changes in established practice. It was largely ignored and birth control became generally accepted.

After World War I the ideal middle class family had two children. After World War II the middle class family became smaller. Education was prolonged and cost more. Mothers were working and had less time to devote to children. There was a tendency to limit the family to one child, since the more that could be spent on a child the more likely that child would succeed. Meanwhile, poor families were taking more and more to birth control. Without immigration, the general population got smaller.

In