RE: Tooth Fairy Bullshit
January 23, 2017 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2017 at 4:44 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 23, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 4:26 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Which ultimately reduces to Might-Makes-Right. Not exactly what we would called liberal Western values.
Not at all. Enlightened self-interest can and does encourage humility and sacrifice as well.
Let's say you are right. How can you say that humility and sacrifice are good without appealing to the unproven notion that human life has value.
"Not enough evidence, Sir!" -Bertrand Russell
(January 23, 2017 at 3:53 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Equality would be an aspiration rather than a principle.
For you maybe. Let's ask Genghis Khan how he feels about equality.
(January 23, 2017 at 3:53 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Autonomy; my rights end when someone else's are infringed? Surely that one should be self explanatory.
The rights of the women he raped didn't seem to prevent 1 in 200 people from being descended from him. Sounds like his offspring did better than everyone elses', which is kinda how evolution works.