Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:00:47 -0700
From: Dave Oldridge
Subject: Re: Re: an interesting challange!!!
therfore what are Morals?
my comment is the same defintion I give to
Evidence.
So bloody what. The fact that there are thieves
and
murderers in
the world does not give YOU any excuse to steal
and
murder.
excellent reply.. however evolution does not care.
Evolution, being merely a scientific description of
what happens
obviously is not capable of "caring" about anything.
exactly!!
If your family is hungry and your neighbour has in
abundance, and after you asked him, and even offer
to
work for him.. and he gives you naught...
well
Uh, actually the BIBLE reflects this morality in
Deuteronomy. You
are permitted to break the commandment if it is a
matter of life
and death, though you are required to repay threefold
to square
such a debt.
Not that I am aware of. do you have any specifics? to
back up your
claims?
your family and their well being is more important
than his...
guess who going to have a good meal?
it is matter of survival.
And to some extent, this is true. But it is also
true that by
joining forces with your neighbour you might be able
to produce
more food than the two of you can separately.
so, two tribes joins together to kill off another for
food.. a pre-
hisroric coalition, ...what of it?
Humans are
successful not because we are ruthless killers.
Evolution has not
even equipped us to be killers, really, though it has
provided us
with brains to enable us to do it if we have to.
like to kill off the competition, to survive.
But those same
brains permit us to cooperate for mutual
benefit--permit us to talk
to one another and make plans and negotiate
settlements rather than
engage in costly battles.
Are you sure? I can rule "costly battles" as Natural
selection
stragety to remove the weak, and the old.
war are fought today for no different. survival of
the
fittest, the fit take the resource. the weak or the
loser dies.
no moral or ethics involved?
Genetic survival is not MERELY a matter of who lives
and who dies.
Of course it is.
Nor are we NECESSARILY in competition with others of
our species or
even with other species.
Yes we are. when was the last time you went to KFC or
ate a Hamburger?
it either we eat the cow of the cow eats us!!! :-)
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