RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
June 7, 2022 at 9:26 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2022 at 9:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why would morality be inevitable? If life inevitably leads to morality then why does the overwhelming mass of life not appear to possess it? If there being a universe inevitably leads to life, then why is it so devoid of life?
More fundamentally, does the sort of fatalism involved in such propositions fit with any moral system you'd cosign? To dive in hard...are you comfortable in positing objective moral values existence so that theres something to be inevitably instantiated..and, if so, why would evolution not be able to account for a species that can observe such facts? Further, how does this state of affairs play into inevitability. As in, if we live in this fatalistic world proposed, so what if a species can observe a moral fact - they're going to do whatever they were always going to do..inevitably.
More fundamentally, does the sort of fatalism involved in such propositions fit with any moral system you'd cosign? To dive in hard...are you comfortable in positing objective moral values existence so that theres something to be inevitably instantiated..and, if so, why would evolution not be able to account for a species that can observe such facts? Further, how does this state of affairs play into inevitability. As in, if we live in this fatalistic world proposed, so what if a species can observe a moral fact - they're going to do whatever they were always going to do..inevitably.
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