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    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 4, 2015 at 10:43 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: And was that our federal holiday? No? First, let me apologize for the delay in response. I don't always have the time I'd like.  Anyway, you seem to be ...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 15, 2015 at 5:29 am
    Thread: Terminator - Genesis
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(July 2, 2015 at 7:07 am)ignoramus Wrote: I just watched it guys... My opinion as a big Terminator fan. Bloody shithouse. 5/10 would be generous. The worst of the lot. Real bad acting (even Emilia ...
 smax The Arts 23 3418 July 4, 2015 at 2:52 am
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 2, 2015 at 8:54 am)Tonus Wrote: Sorry, but this stuff fascinates me.  I find it unsatisfying to stop at whether or not we are X.  It's much more fun to wonder why we are X and how it fits into...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 3, 2015 at 7:45 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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Like I said, the letter allows you to live ignorant, even if you do claim to know about and understand the events in question. You obviously like the Thanksgiving holiday and prefer to think of it in ...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 3, 2015 at 7:33 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 6:05 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: It literally has nothing to do with the Native American genocide. That's just a failure on your part to properly consider the facts. The fact is, Lincoln...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 2, 2015 at 10:34 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 6:02 pm)IATIA Wrote: (June 28, 2015 at 8:41 pm)smax Wrote: Morality is the product of selfish interests. When slavery served a selfish interest, it was con...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 10:47 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 5:26 pm)Aristocatt Wrote: Most of your post is a strawman But the first paragraph deserves a response. There are plenty of answers to the anthropological question about the origins...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 10:42 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 3:37 pm)Aristocatt Wrote: Disproving weak egoism seems pretty much impossible.  However the extent to which you need to dilute egoism to make it intellectually air tight makes it, f...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 4:29 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 3:22 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Like I've repeated half a dozen times with no reply, you've just changed the definition to the point where it doesn't matter and can apply to anything and...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 4:05 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Tonus Wrote: (July 1, 2015 at 2:23 pm)smax Wrote: When you say most people "don't think like that", surely you know that is a very naive generalization, right? Do you real...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 3:36 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 2:54 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: (July 1, 2015 at 2:36 pm)smax Wrote: The whole point of the theory and this discussion is to examine the root of moral values. And, it sounds like, as y...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 3:16 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: (June 28, 2015 at 8:41 pm)smax Wrote: Thanksgiving is LITERALLY the celebration of Native American slaughter. No, it isn't. Yeah, how often do you get t...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 3:07 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 2:25 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Then you would seem to have a very poor grasp of it. I understand empathy fine, I just see it as a clear product of self interest. Empathy is the ability to ...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 3:06 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 2:22 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: (July 1, 2015 at 2:07 pm)smax Wrote: Have you considered that the actions you take because of boredom are in the pursuit of self interest? I mean, that ...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 2:36 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 1:04 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I think self-interest may be a better term for what the OP describes, anyway.  Selfishness implies individualistic greed.  Self-interest is different.  It is ...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 2:23 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 1:59 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: (July 1, 2015 at 1:53 pm)smax Wrote: I don't think it's that complicated at all. But, perhaps to sort through an obvious objection you have to this phil...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 2:07 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 12:32 pm)JuliaL Wrote: Your spider metaphor doesn't work for me at all. I welcome them in my house along with my many centipedes (all of which I have named "Bob.") They are my comma...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 2:00 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 11:50 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's amazing how popular this idea that everything is rooted in selfishness is. This idea only works though if you expand the definition of selfishness s...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 1:53 pm
    Thread: My supporting POV on selfishness motivating human moral values
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(July 1, 2015 at 9:41 am)Iroscato Wrote: I have another suggestion for the existence of morality. Empathy. I would argue that empathy, with all it's evident limitations, is the product of selfishne...
 smax Religion 60 13157 July 1, 2015 at 1:45 pm
    Thread: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
Post: RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
Morality is a product of selfish interest. It's the most obvious natural instinct we have.
 smax Christianity 2506 271874 June 29, 2015 at 1:40 pm