(March 13, 2016 at 9:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 13, 2016 at 8:57 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: If I have to choose between acting in accordance with my empathy despite the fact that it may be confounded by other evolved responses, and what some book says "God" tells me I should do (even though there is no official consensus on how said book should be interpreted), I'm gonna go ahead and say my empathy is probably more efficacious. Thanks.All you are doing is criticizing a straw man. You avoided giving an answer. It will not do to make vague references, like most atheists do, to evolution and empathy without acknowledging other evolutionary responses or justifying why reproductive-advantage is a moral virtue.
No...you asked me why I privilege empathy over other evolutionary responses. My answer was 'I don't'. What is your point?
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Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
