scmasse said - "Our goal, as with any animal...Produce and teach offspring, survive, and my personal human goal: Make the world a better place than how I found it (even the smallest change is still a change)."
That's true, apart from humans no longer reproduce based on the idea of 'survival of the fittest', so our goal is somewhat different from other animals.
Other animals seek out the strongest partners to mate with, so the good traits are passed on to the offspring and the bad ones aren't. Humans have stopped doing this so our chances of moving on to the next evolutionary stage of our species is severely hindered.
scmasse said - "Our goal, as with any animal...Produce and teach offspring, survive, and my personal human goal: Make the world a better place than how I found it (even the smallest change is still a change)."
That's true, apart from humans no longer reproduce based on the idea of 'survival of the fittest', so our goal is somewhat different from other animals.
Other animals seek out the strongest partners to mate with, so the good traits are passed on to the offspring and the bad ones aren't. Humans have stopped doing this so our chances of moving on to the next evolutionary stage of our species is severely hindered.