(March 19, 2018 at 10:29 am)Kookaburra Wrote: In your opinion, if I may ask: is it naive or illogical to hold that killing is wrong simply because I am strongly emotionally opposed to it, and I wouldn’t want to be killed? This seems to lack a logical base, but it might just be my upbringing showing.
I can't give you a confident answer here, but it could be more like: I hold that killing is wrong, therefore I am [conditioned to be] strongly emotionally opposed to it. The tricky part (relatively speaking) is in knowing why we hold that killing is wrong. And I think it may have something to do with us being primed to value the maintenance of life itself (something to do with ensuring the survival of our DNA, at a more basic level).
