RE: Gay Marriage - are you for or against it and why?
March 10, 2011 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2011 at 5:05 pm by lilphil1989.)
(March 9, 2011 at 5:54 pm)corndog36 Wrote: I would have to say that a flawless concept of morality would be based on fundamental principles of right and wrong.
Does such a thing as a set of internally consistent fundamental principles of morality exist?
Morality is a side-effect of the fact that those of our ancestors that were better at working in groups were more likely to survive and reproduce.
With that in mind, it seems to me like it would be silly to suggest any such "fundamental" principles.
Imagine a species on another planet evolves a morality with different rules. How could you judge which, if either, of the two systems is fundamental?
corndog36 Wrote:Your concept of morality is flawed because you applied it to the question of slavery and arrived at the wrong conclusion.
I think you're missing the point, which is that you have no objective way of deciding that the conclusion is wrong.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
