My views on objective morality

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CD: Yup. I think Christians displace certain questions, when they realize any answer will reveal inconsistencies in their belief system. I can understand this. Cognitive dissidence, right? Easier to blank the question than to really think about it, which must feel uncomfortable.

Interesting aside though:

I met a kid yesterday I actually liked when visiting a friend. That in itself is something of a miracle. They usually make my blood boil just by being near me. But this one was well behaved, which I'm not used to. Really, I'm mad at the parents who let their kids run riot and scream all the time.

He was very sweet, and I felt a primal urge to protect him. I don't normally have any paternal instincts specifically for human kids, further to my general concern for every living thing. But I felt like "Rob protect kid! Anyone try to hurt kid, rob bash them!" It was pleasant and disconcerting at the same time.

He had an innate sense of fairness and wanting to share. He is 2, I think. He can walk about a bit, and is beginning to get some words right. He had just met me, but he seemed to take a shine to me right away! I was amazed. He wanted to have a sweet, but he also wanted me to have one. He kept pointing at me, and he wasn't satisfied until I had been given one! He dubbed me "man", which is actually more respectful than I've been used to from random people on the street. "Man play with bus".

I found it very sweet, and interesting from an evolutionary perspective.