humans really are just material beings  we are assemblages of particles banging around. everyone, no matter what they say, flips out when their means of survival, i.e. their income, is threatened, in a way that they never get so worked up over "values" or "morals." we are homo economicus, the economic man.  our instincts rule our reasons and our reason just exists to provide better ways to get at what we want; reason is purely instrumental.  show me anyone who is not base, materialistic, made of particles entirely, and you win. but you cannot find a counterexample because one does not exist. we are low creatures of the earth, evolved in the darwinian death match to seek resources, control of which is power. there is no god, there is nothing holy. the universe is all there is.
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