(September 1, 2012 at 2:42 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: For people who think that evolutionary biology/evolutionary neurology accounts for the totality of our moral norms seriously need to look at how stupid, unreliable and ad hoc evo-psych explanations are, even to evo biologists.
Sorry, but the only person I'm aware of making this claim is you. Most everyone else - and I apologise if I've missed anything - have said that there is a combination of, as you put it, "evolutionary biology/evolutionary neurology" plus social interactions, desire for acceptance/fear of rejection, and probably a whole host of other factors I can't even begin to imagine.
You're going to run out of straw at this rate.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
