RE: Human Value Nonexistent?
October 29, 2012 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2012 at 12:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You think that myth provides a rational justification? Only by some hilarious definitions for myth, rational, and justification. That we do not require "justification" to value things would be implied by your own argument, as we clearly valued each other before these myths were present (and again, this is in your own statements - you choose to differ to instincts). That intelligence does not require "rational justifications" for it's impulses, urges or actions is again implied in your own argument by the same statement.
Now on to demonstrable things. These myths and the value we place on others did not "go together". We valued others long before we were ever even humans, and we were fully modern humans for a long time before the mythmaking bullshit started. Please, please, please show me something in mythical morality that isn't primitive - because I'd be very interested?
(myth definitely provides something, and all super snarkiness aside I'm, going to mention that in the absence of a suitable explanation any explanation seems to do, for us anyway. We have a tendency to -fill in the blanks-. This doesn't mean that any justification is actually being offered up, just that we're content with whatever relieves us of the need to consider the question)
Now on to demonstrable things. These myths and the value we place on others did not "go together". We valued others long before we were ever even humans, and we were fully modern humans for a long time before the mythmaking bullshit started. Please, please, please show me something in mythical morality that isn't primitive - because I'd be very interested?
(myth definitely provides something, and all super snarkiness aside I'm, going to mention that in the absence of a suitable explanation any explanation seems to do, for us anyway. We have a tendency to -fill in the blanks-. This doesn't mean that any justification is actually being offered up, just that we're content with whatever relieves us of the need to consider the question)
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