(September 1, 2017 at 10:25 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Morality in our species history has always been a point of view thing. You think it is moral to sell Allah, Christians thing it is moral to sell Jesus. Hindus their religion, and Jews theirs and so on.
What has not changed in our species long before any written religion or nation for that matter, what has not changed is evolution has produced EMPATHY for others.
You want to use this post to point to Allah as the origin of our species morality. Problem is so do Jews and Christians and Hindus and Buddhists.
But evolution is where morality is coming from which is why these elephants did what they did.
Bravo, Brian! I think the basketball fans would call that a slam dunk. I'm more of a baseball guy so I would call it a grand slam.
All you have to do is look at the body-English of those animals. Their concern for the welfare of the baby was hard-wired. Automatic. It is a trait selected for by evolution because it is beneficial to the survival of the species. Very simple explanation. Nothing more is needed.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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