(March 13, 2016 at 8:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 13, 2016 at 8:12 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Because thanks to evolution, biology, and genetics, I feel empathy. Empathy drives most of us.Empathy is one of many emotional responses to circumstance. People also feel fear, anger, contempt, and loyalty. In-group loyalty is a particularly strong evolved emotional response and often at odds with empathy. By what criteria do you priviledge empathy over all other evolved responses?
Have we not seen anger, contempt, and loyalty all at play within organized religion?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
