KEN RUEGG
VICTIMIZED BY MILLIONS
APES AND MAN - THE GARDEN OF EDEN: The Great Apes and Humans
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS is distinguished from the Great Apes by his advanced thought processes. Children have an awareness of right and wrong upon reaching "the age of reason", at which point certain religions consider them responsible for their behavior. Knowledge of right from wrong also establishes legal sanity in courts, except for the exception in PRECEDENT, described in the previous section.                                                                                                                                                                                                             MAN'S KNOWLEDGE of right and wrong must be acted upon, to establish guilt or innocence. People can lead productive lives, or spend time in prisons. VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIENCE, learned in society, either restrain, or redirect in healthy ways, aggressive, violent instincts inherited by Man from his remote ancestors, the Great Apes.                                                                                                                                           ADAM AND EVE eating the apple in the Garden of Eden, from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, means that they became aware of right from wrong, and were thus responsible for their actions. Man is distinguished from the lower animals by this awareness. To be accountable for doing wrong, you must know your actions to be wrong, and then deliberately act in violation of that knowledge. This can be done by only one biological species: Homo sapiens sapiens. Ourselves.                                                                                                                                                                                             CONSCIENCE is learned in Civilization, and is necessary to it. Those without conscience are enemies of society, who harm decent people whenever unrestrained by fear. They are wild animals having human intelligence with which to do their damage to the rest of us. I have called their type of thinking, "ape", "violent", "dysfunctional", or "criminal" mind, to distinguish it from the thinking of civilized people, which I have termed, "human", "civilized", or "non-criminal" mind. I have argued that these two different types of mind are, in fact, different species of mind in present day humans, indicating two different species of Homo sapiens sapiens.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "CIVILIZED" MIND behaves in ways consistent with the process of Man's continuing Evolution of Mind. Those having "APE" MIND damage that process.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. By their fruits you shall know them."                                                                                                                                                                                                                   -Jesus, the Christ                                                                                                                                                                          BOTH "non-criminal", and "criminal" mind are distinct SPECIES of mind, which can be distinguished from each other by their respective behaviors.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   See the preceding section, "CRIMINAL INSANITY versus LEGAL INSANITY", under "about".                                                                                                                                                                                                                   See "apes and humans", "God and Man Evolving", "Eternal Mind using Random Chance", and "Advancement as Intrinsic to Evolution", under "contact".