RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm
(January 28, 2025 at 6:39 am)Sheldon Wrote:(January 28, 2025 at 2:57 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Is killing immoral because it causes harm? Certainly not...still metaethically objective. Just wrong.
Why is it objectively wrong to kill someone?
It causes pain, it causes harm.
This is how the human body functions. It goes for other animals as well, as long as they have a brain and nervous system.
Humans are emotional machines. The same goes for other animals as well.
When you cut yourself or something infects you or an animal bites you, you sense pain.
This probably has served the purpose of helping the animal survive.
Our morality is layered on the above fact.
If we had no such emotions, then we would not have rules such as "don't kill your fellow man", "don't punch your fellow man", etc.
You would have no desire to survive.