RE: Conservatives have more self-control
January 26, 2018 at 9:59 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2018 at 10:00 am by FatAndFaithless.)
(January 26, 2018 at 9:57 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(January 26, 2018 at 9:48 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: Yeah very few people have ever argued that we should base our morals off of evolution. Evolution is not the atheist's god.
I could point to hundreds of posts on AF showing just the opposite...keyword "empathy".
Saying that evolution has engendered us with empathy is not saying that evolution is the basis of morals. There are plenty of things that came along with evolution that everyone agrees are immoral, like xenophobia or inclinations to violence, for example. Evolution has resulted in some good, moral tendencies and behaviors, and some bad, immoral tendencies and behaviors. Acknowledging the source of these behaviors doesn't make it the arbiter of morality.
That's unusually sloppy for you.
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