Furthermore some other dumb creationist freak out generally go something like this
"If we observe nature we see a tendency to kill the weak and unproductive as being productive to the group so if evolution is proscriptive then this should be replicated"
This is retarded for 5 reasons
1. Even if we grant any of this so what? morality is about what's right and wrong not what you feel comfortable with . (note the above is bullock)
2. Then they observing nature very carefully. As I can't think of an example among social species were the crippled of there group are killed . In fact the total opposite can be observed from horses and zebra's nuzzling crippled offspring to primates comforting even still born infants . I argue that within limited capacity for empathy and intelligence they do similar things . It's just that we are more empathic and intelligent .
3. If were going to be intensely pragmatic caring for the sick and crippled has lead to some of the great medical advances that have helped us all
4. Believing in assigned magic morality has not by default made the religious more compassionate to said group in fact quite the opposite
5. Social Darwinism is not naturalistic prescriptive met ethics so this whole statement is a straw man built on disinterest or ignorance.
"If we observe nature we see a tendency to kill the weak and unproductive as being productive to the group so if evolution is proscriptive then this should be replicated"
This is retarded for 5 reasons
1. Even if we grant any of this so what? morality is about what's right and wrong not what you feel comfortable with . (note the above is bullock)
2. Then they observing nature very carefully. As I can't think of an example among social species were the crippled of there group are killed . In fact the total opposite can be observed from horses and zebra's nuzzling crippled offspring to primates comforting even still born infants . I argue that within limited capacity for empathy and intelligence they do similar things . It's just that we are more empathic and intelligent .
3. If were going to be intensely pragmatic caring for the sick and crippled has lead to some of the great medical advances that have helped us all
4. Believing in assigned magic morality has not by default made the religious more compassionate to said group in fact quite the opposite
5. Social Darwinism is not naturalistic prescriptive met ethics so this whole statement is a straw man built on disinterest or ignorance.
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