Evolving

I had an interesting conversation with Neil about past lives, where he demanded to know why, if we had past lives, we hadn't morally evolved better. I pointed out a number of arguments, including that because morals are by nature flexible within situations and subject to interpretation, it's hard to learn an into-the-next-lifetime absolute morality. I also made some silly mathematical arguments, about how few people learn anything lastingly, and how few of those would even be reincarnated.

But at the end of that quibbling, what really sticks is this -- I think we have evolved spiritually, though it's hard to call as for "morally." We've evolved more compassion. We're a more global society, we're wealthier on average, and we're more aware of our neighbors' suffering; we don't tend to do much about it, but we *do* do little things, when we never would have before.