(January 23, 2017 at 4:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Not at all. Enlightened self-interest can and does encourage humility and sacrifice as well.
Let's say you are right. How can you say that humility and sacrifice are good without appealing to the unproven notion that human life has value.
"Not enough evidence, Sir!" -Bertrand Russell
Given that the claim is regarding an abstraction -- values -- rather than the concrete -- asking for evidence of it seems unreasonably obtuse; and we haven't even broached the notion that values are subjective.