(August 19, 2012 at 10:07 am)elunico13 Wrote: Well that will be easy since people use evolution to justify inequality.
Stephen J. Gould, in Natural History (April 1980, p. 144), said that “Recapitulation [the evolutionary theory which postulates that a developing embryo in its mother’s womb goes through evolutionary stages, such as the fish stage, etc., until it becomes human] provided a convenient focus for the pervasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal, adult behavior in lower races” (brackets mine). Gould also concludes that the term “mongoloid” became synonymous with mentally defective people because it was believed the Caucasian race was more highly developed than the Mongoloid. Therefore, some thought that a mentally defective child was really a throwback to a previous stage in evolution.
Recapitulation is a defunct theory and if you actually understood what you wrote, you'd realize that Gould is talking about how concepts of evolution can be misrepresented and misconstrued to serve racist agenda. Use of perverted forms of valid evolutionary concepts to justify inequality is not actual evidence of inequality.
(August 19, 2012 at 10:07 am)elunico13 Wrote: I also want to add:
You're still assuming rights are important to justify rights are important.
You're wrong. No such assumption has been made.
(August 19, 2012 at 10:07 am)elunico13 Wrote: Also, evolution doesn't explain why we have autonomy.
Yes, it does. Autonomy is the result of rational faculty which developed via evolution.
(August 19, 2012 at 10:07 am)elunico13 Wrote: Being evolved from an accident would mean any actions such as murder, rape, pedophilia would just be the result of the same accident.
Good thing it wasn't an accident then.
(August 19, 2012 at 10:07 am)elunico13 Wrote: The pedophile can then get away with "I was born like this" if you disagree then you deny what evolution caused him to do.
No one is stopping the pedophile from feeling attraction towards little children. But that attraction isn't the only facet he was born with. He is also a rational human being and because of that he is held responsible for his actions.
(August 19, 2012 at 10:07 am)elunico13 Wrote: It's still you personal moral opinion over someone else.
No, when it comes to encroaching on someone else's autonomy, it becomes a matter of moral fact.