(April 5, 2012 at 8:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: What allows DP to say that things like empathy and fair play are right? DP wants to say that we should follow the dictates of our inner sense of right and wrong. Why? DP says there's a survival benefit.
The flaw in your logic here is the use of the strawman fallacy.
There is a difference between the following two statements:
Statement 1: "Empathy is the result of our evolutionary development as social animals" (what I said)
Statement 2: "We should use empathy because it is evolutionarily sound." (not what I said)
The first is a possible explanation that I proposed as to why we have empathy, though I also allow for the possibility of GodDidIt. It's entirely beside the point of our discussion. The second is your strawman of me.
By the way, request #5: Any time you want to address this post on why religious morality fails, please do!
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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