RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
June 7, 2022 at 8:37 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2022 at 8:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Since, again, the vast majority of life on this planet does not appear to possess moral agency, the weight of available evidence is heavily tilted in favor of the proposition. We may ourselves become just such a species, or we may blip out and any one of them continues along. Time and nature is not frozen.
I suppose it highlights another question. Is moral apprehension exclusively advantageous? Personally, I doubt that. It's conceivable (and in fact in practice) that some moral systems may make demands of adherents that could not in any credible way be argued to facilitate reproduction. That could be deleterious to a species, or whatever portion of it's breeding population conforms to it. Conveniently, this is why I doubt that our inherited compulsions fully exhaust the set of moral apprehensions. That more generally..not just related to biology..we can perceive things to be good when they are not good-for us. To be bad, even if they are good-for us. I like to use the examples of apocalyptic people with access to apocalyptic weapons, and gay conversion therapy.
How about you, what do you think?
I suppose it highlights another question. Is moral apprehension exclusively advantageous? Personally, I doubt that. It's conceivable (and in fact in practice) that some moral systems may make demands of adherents that could not in any credible way be argued to facilitate reproduction. That could be deleterious to a species, or whatever portion of it's breeding population conforms to it. Conveniently, this is why I doubt that our inherited compulsions fully exhaust the set of moral apprehensions. That more generally..not just related to biology..we can perceive things to be good when they are not good-for us. To be bad, even if they are good-for us. I like to use the examples of apocalyptic people with access to apocalyptic weapons, and gay conversion therapy.
How about you, what do you think?
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