(September 4, 2012 at 1:22 pm)elunico13 Wrote: Why should LYING be wrong if we are just a result of random mutations that just happened to convey some sort of survival value?
1. Are you trying to equivocate between the meanings of the word "wrong"? I said, you are wrong as in "your statements don't reflect the reality" and not as in "your statements are immoral". Thus, lying is the same as making a wrong statement - it is wrong by definition. No one is attaching a specific moral judgment to it though.
2. Again we are not "just a result of random mutations that just happened to convey some sort of survival value". What would it take to get that through your thick skull.
3. As to why your lies make you immoral here - that's because in a rational debate, both parties have an implicit contract to stick to the truth. Since this is another version of the social contract that determines morality, you, in acting against it, are immoral.
(September 4, 2012 at 1:22 pm)elunico13 Wrote: Evolution can't prescribe how we ought to behave since it's descriptive.
Whoever said it did?
