The Moment of Truth

I'm left in an entirely confused state of mind right now, having a continuous moreso back to back dose of Independence Day and Armageddon, it inevitably resurrects this sudden feeling of patriotism . The feeling that is palpable ( which in other times isn't ) now gives entirely different meaning to virtues of self sacrifice , for once to think beyond logic and work with a conscience. If at all I had to set an analogy , and that too a funny one , it would be when Adam ( the proverbial male --> the first and only one in those circumstances) had embibed this perpetual hatred for Eve ( the proverbial female-> moreso the onlt one) and still had to mate with her , for the sole reason of multiplying mankind, now that would be some serious self sacrifice! On a more serious note, I do agree that sometimes choices have to be made in order to obtain the worst for yourself but the best for all those around you and btw by the rules of Economics ( please excuse my limited knowledge), that is indeed the best choice in the bag. Now the non initiates here would wonder how that goes that way, well I'm sure to the naked eye the tact of saving one's respective arses is indeed a better option , and I would agree that sometimes it is , but in contemporary circumstances or say the circumstances dealt with in the movie, one can speculate what would have happened, had the self sacrifise not been made , perhaps everything would have been destroyed, so there was nothing much in store anyway, that means if Adam hadn't mated with Eve , for whom ( I assume ) he had perpetual hatred and detestation , he would have had to stay with the same irritating female for the rest of his already sucked up life, so rather he made the one time ( ohhk ..might have been more than one time ) investment and got himself a few cute little pups to dwindle around, you know just to keep himself all the more preoccupied. In effect he escapes with a balance sheet in green. If I were to elaborate I would reiterate this by the beauty of the very prestigious " Prisoner's Dillemma", what to say about this , I'll say it's an entirely personal opinion , if each and every country's government had the ability to catch the not so banal background music orchestrated in this puzzle, not a single war would have happened, but then expecting every politician to get it in its true sense is a bit too much to ask for. So continuing with the idea, the man who makes the sacrifice is unarguably the evolved soul, for he is the one who realises that if nobody is gonna make the sacrfice , nobody including himself suffers, but if someone does , the loss is substancially less, perhaps he smothers himself with the whole loss camouflaging the whole society from its ill effects. Obviously the best proposition would be to sit back and let someone else make the sacrifice and make the benefits, I'm not contradicitng that, but just sit back and analyse that if ever in life you had to be judged by your acts and not by some god forsaken entrance examination, to ever prove to the world that your thinking is a notch higher than them, then this would be the moment, call it the Moment of Truth. A man witht a higher evolutionary process would think logical and assume the sacrificing role, for he is the one a notch higher, the one who has realised this logical truth, ( the one who read Hal Varian :P) the one who realised the importance of this moment of truth.