(January 28, 2016 at 11:28 am)Drich Wrote: So then if Empathy is controllable by the culture, it is not a force that will trancend the culture and help you define right and wrong because the culture will control who it is you will have empathy for. So again if the culture makes a hard left into evil then you can be sure your empathy will have been long switched off so you can march right over who the culture wants gone.
And if you happen to be born into the wrong religion, will your belief in the wrong 'objective' values help you to transcend your predicament?