RE: Why be good?
June 1, 2015 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2015 at 5:18 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 1, 2015 at 4:42 pm)wallym Wrote: The problem of course, is what happens if we lose access to our cheesecake and sex? When there's one potato and 3 hungry families who haven't eaten in a day. Then 'being good' goes out the window, and we hack eachother up with axes.
Not according to the experts.
In the 2014 book, "Social Dilemmas: Understanding Human Cooperation"
Teaching and research Ph. D. sociologists Paul A.M. Lange, Daniel Balliet, Craig D. Parks, and evolutionary psychologist, Mark van Vugt make a case, that kind of proves you wrong.
They have advanced degrees, decades of in field research, teaching positions at leading universities. What you got?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
