RE: Morality from the ground up
August 3, 2017 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 12:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@Jorg
Obviously a full appraisal of the entirety of the moral field (and particularly it;s origins and how we accomplish whatever moral calculations we intuitively make at the process level) will contain many things..but I have to ask, why do you think that we, a predatory animal, would have a stronger natural inclination against killing animals that suffer? I can't imagine that, over the years, those who had a much -more- well developed sense of guilt over the deaths of animals would have been all that successful - particularly in comparison to the rest of us. Personally, I find -any- natural inclination against killing animals that suffer...which we possess in spades, a bit of an outlier.
There aren't many remorseful mouths in the world.
Obviously a full appraisal of the entirety of the moral field (and particularly it;s origins and how we accomplish whatever moral calculations we intuitively make at the process level) will contain many things..but I have to ask, why do you think that we, a predatory animal, would have a stronger natural inclination against killing animals that suffer? I can't imagine that, over the years, those who had a much -more- well developed sense of guilt over the deaths of animals would have been all that successful - particularly in comparison to the rest of us. Personally, I find -any- natural inclination against killing animals that suffer...which we possess in spades, a bit of an outlier.
There aren't many remorseful mouths in the world.
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