RE: The Struggle to do Good
May 31, 2020 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2020 at 7:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Having a brain and sexual impulses is the advantageous part, but there's no such thing as a free lunch and there are a wide range of maladaptive behaviors and abilities (and those behaviors change with time) that having a brain and sexual desires also happens to confer. Plants are mechanically incapable of pedophilia, and if pedophilia is a bad thing..then it's a bad thing that plants don't even have to worry about doing by accident. Food for thought. Literally..we eat them, and then some of us who eat them go from that to pedophilia.
I don't think that any debate about evolution is required for this convo, though.
Moral agency can be entirely dissociated from nature. Perhaps our moral sense is, in some meaningful way, non-natural™. That still wouldn't suggest, imply, or demonstrate that our moral sense was an external message, let alone the external message of a god. Perhaps moral agency has no survival benefit...but is that why we do it, if so? To survive?
I don't think that any debate about evolution is required for this convo, though.
Moral agency can be entirely dissociated from nature. Perhaps our moral sense is, in some meaningful way, non-natural™. That still wouldn't suggest, imply, or demonstrate that our moral sense was an external message, let alone the external message of a god. Perhaps moral agency has no survival benefit...but is that why we do it, if so? To survive?
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