RE: Morality
January 22, 2019 at 12:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2019 at 12:21 pm by Brian37.)
(January 22, 2019 at 11:29 am)Acrobat Wrote:(January 22, 2019 at 11:06 am)Brian37 Wrote: No not my personal feelings at all. Other species form groups too. Other species care for other individuals within their groups too. Evolution explains the behavior of life, not old books of mythology.
You appealed to empathy, as evolutionary component of your moral views.
And yes empathy is your personal feelings, even though others also have similar personal feelings.
Several people might share similar empathetic feelings and sensations when observing certain phenomena, like an innocent person being harmed.
No I did not claim empathy was a moral view, I simply said it is a product of evolution. Cruelty is also a product of evolution. It is still up to humanity how we interact with each other.
Tornados are also natural, that does not mean I want one flattening my house or killing me.
All I am saying is nature is nature, be it constructive or destructive, including human behavior.
If you can accept that a mother elephant or lioness will protect their young, while other rivals or predators will kill their young, all I am saying is BOTH are products of evolution.
I really do not care if you want to claim Buddha or Vishnu or Allah or Venus or Apollo are where human morality come from. I say most humans ARE GOOD. I simply disagree as to where humans think our behaviors, good or bad are coming from.
How is it this cat, whom cant read the Koran or Bible or Torah figured out the kid was in danger? Religious people would say "my diety did it", or "miracle". I'd say that the cat was merely defending a source of something familiar to it that gave it mutual benefit of comfort, food AND LOVE.
And these Elephants also cant read the bible or koran or Hindu Baghavad Gita. But still managed to save a calf.