RE: Guys: Would you ever rape and murder a girl?
December 15, 2015 at 9:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2015 at 9:46 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 15, 2015 at 9:42 pm)Mark94xCPP Wrote:(December 15, 2015 at 9:38 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: All that it requires to understand that raping and murdering are wrong, is a bit of empathy, and the realization that you would not want to be raped or murdered.
Google and watch the lecture "the superiority of secular morality" by Matt Dilahunty.
If you don't have the empathy required, you may be a sociopath.
But what reason is there to have the empathy not to rape and murder a girl?
It is the result of our evolutionary past.
We evolved as a social species, where altruism, cooperation, reciprocity and empathy were part of our survival mechanisms.
Our closest cousins, the bonobo chimps, have many similar (but less developed) behaviors.
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.
