Dear Rabbi Lamm: Last night I picked up a book, “The Making of Kubrick’s 2001.” On page 55 I found an article about you concerning your beliefs on extra–terrestrial life. I agree with many of the points you put forth. However, one paragraph does not strike me as well thought out. I quote: “One of our great difficulties is, who is to say that the physician, or the scientist, or anyone who has a Ph.D. and is in control of certain processes, has the right to determine the future, of anything’s or anyone’s life and death. Man is monkeying around with his environment. He is monkeying around with himself as well. He is changing himself.” True; man is monkeying around with himself and his environment, causing himself to be strangled by his own mass produced poisons spewing themselves out day and night into our life–supporting atmosphere. But man does not have the right of decision of life or death, over any living entity. However, he should have the right to “monkey” around with himself. This right is the start of all the religions in the world. If Abraham did not have the right to change his religion and monkey with one God, and only G.d, where would the Jewish people be today? If Moses did not fear G.d, and had less fear of the Pharaoh, he would never have decided to allow someone else to take his place as the leader of the Jews from slavery. Today, man has to change his environment, for his environment is out to destroy him. He lives surrounded by madness. Surrounded by a spiritually poor decadent population, striving only, for the god money. He lives surrounded by hate and fear. If he is not to change this, man as a race has a poor chance of survival. Many criticize today’s youth, saying they are too free, and immoral. This may be true in a relative way. For, these same parents were too strongly controlled by their parents. They were taught unnatural hates and prejudices, they were taught that the goal of one’s self was to make it in a large, one–family house and hav…