(March 20, 2018 at 6:35 am)alpha male Wrote:People? I understood what you meant. Did you understand the quote from Goodall?(March 19, 2018 at 6:23 pm)chimp3 Wrote: People?
Yes, people. The thread's about secular humanism.
Quote:I have no idea what this means.
People are inherently moral, but life situations can occasionally drive them to do immoral things.
People are inherently immoral. Social institutions are necessary to maintain a reasonable amount of morality.
Those are two different views on the nature of people (yes, people) and the role of society. Which do you subscribe to (or describe an alternative), and what's your evidence for that view?
I can agree with both people being moral and immoral. I think my quoting Goodall implies that.
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