RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
May 28, 2022 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2022 at 4:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Taboo is utilitarian, the incest taboo produces hybrid genetics in a diverse population affording us vigor. It also prevents the rapid accumulation of defects common to any specific line.
Now, if you don’t understand genetics, don’t fuck your siblings makes for a good heuristic . However, just as we sometimes inbreed livestock lines we inbreed our own - and..generally, for the same reasons in both cases. We’ve commonly believed that breeding royalty with peasants is similar to breeding a heritage or purebred animal with a mutt.
This may or may not be an item of moral import…but…as always, referring to people that -do- fuck their siblings is not a refutation of any fact of the matter in practice or in principle.
It may…in fact, be better (either morally or practically or both) to hybridize. That some people don’t has no bearing on that. It could conceivably be better to inbreed, as well- but just as before listing off that people do won’t establish that either.
It is human well-being, and not human feelings, that humanism is premised on, since we’re talking about facts. How might we respond to the prince who will only marry his sister? By pointing out that he was….in fact…. wrong. That inbreeding emphatically does not produce a suitable ruling class. As every ruling class eventually learned through hard experience. As they could have known in their own times by reference to their well mixed combatants, upon which they all relied. As they could have realized (and did)…in their f1 crops.
Now, if you don’t understand genetics, don’t fuck your siblings makes for a good heuristic . However, just as we sometimes inbreed livestock lines we inbreed our own - and..generally, for the same reasons in both cases. We’ve commonly believed that breeding royalty with peasants is similar to breeding a heritage or purebred animal with a mutt.
This may or may not be an item of moral import…but…as always, referring to people that -do- fuck their siblings is not a refutation of any fact of the matter in practice or in principle.
It may…in fact, be better (either morally or practically or both) to hybridize. That some people don’t has no bearing on that. It could conceivably be better to inbreed, as well- but just as before listing off that people do won’t establish that either.
It is human well-being, and not human feelings, that humanism is premised on, since we’re talking about facts. How might we respond to the prince who will only marry his sister? By pointing out that he was….in fact…. wrong. That inbreeding emphatically does not produce a suitable ruling class. As every ruling class eventually learned through hard experience. As they could have known in their own times by reference to their well mixed combatants, upon which they all relied. As they could have realized (and did)…in their f1 crops.
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