RE: This Should Piss Off Religious Twits
August 3, 2012 at 12:57 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2012 at 1:00 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:Anyone who claims that human morals, laws and codes of justice have NOTHING to do with religion is ignorant.
Ad hominem;you need to prove your claim. Simply insulting anyone who disagrees with you may be emotionally satisfying,but does not prove your point.
Your claim is certainly a common religious belief, but it is not a proven one.
My position:
I think morality is simply pragmatic (has a survival value) and relative to time and place. Morality has been usurped by religion, but predates religion by millennia.
Recent studies have shown that compassion and empathy [perhaps THE basis of morality] exist in some other primates,and may indeed hard wired in them and humans. Google is your friend. try searching"morality in apes". I did; 2,400,000 hits
Below,just two:
Quote:The research indicates that morality has developed through evolution and is not an exclusively human attribute. But if our primate cousins share some of our moral scruples as the findings suggest, it is likely to anger those who believe such traits are God-given and set humans apart, according to reports on the Times Online and Telegraph websites. Frans de Waal, professor of psychology at Emory University, who led the study, said:
"I am not arguing that non-human primates are moral beings but there is enough evidence for the following of social rules to agree that some of the stepping stones towards human morality can be found in other animals."
Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/eco...72fDq5e.99
The research indicates that morality has developed through evolution and is not an exclusively human attribute. But if our primate cousins share some of our moral scruples as the findings suggest, it is likely to anger those who believe such traits are God-given and set humans apart, according to reports on the Times Online and Telegraph websites. Frans de Waal, professor of psychology at Emory University, who led the study, said:
"I am not arguing that non-human primates are moral beings but there is enough evidence for the following of social rules to agree that some of the stepping stones towards human morality can be found in other animals."
Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/eco...Dq5e.99The research indicates that morality has developed through evolution and is not an exclusively human attribute. But if our primate cousins share some of our moral scruples as the findings suggest, it is likely to anger those who believe such traits are God-given and set humans apart, according to reports on the Times Online and Telegraph websites. Frans de Waal, professor of psychology at Emory University, who led the study, said:
"I am not arguing that non-human primates are moral beings but there is enough evidence for the following of social rules to agree that some of the stepping stones towards human morality can be found in other animals."
Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/eco...72fDq5e.99
Quote:The evolution of morality refers to the emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution. Morality can be defined as a system of ideas about right and wrong conduct. In everyday life, morality is typically associated with human behavior and not much thought is given to the social conducts of other creatures. The emerging fields of evolutionary biology and in particular sociobiology have argued that, though human social behaviors are complex, the precursors of human morality can be traced to the behaviors of many other social animals. Sociobiological explanations of human behavior are still controversial. The traditional view of social scientists has been that morality is a construct, and is thus culturally relative, although others argue that there is a science of morality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_morality
