RE: Social Darwinism: Right or Wrong
November 21, 2012 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2012 at 1:28 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 21, 2012 at 4:11 am)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote:(November 21, 2012 at 1:38 am)Chuck Wrote: The delusion that human life is special decrease the probability that YOU will be clubbed to a pulp for someone else's afternoon entertainment. Of course YOU in your infinite realism would not care for such delusions and would therefore gladly suffer undecreased probability of being turned into ground meat.
This is an interesting post. You are willing to face the fact that the value of human life is an evolutionarily beneficial delusion?
Value is another name for utility. When the indirect consequence of permissiveness towards casual termination of other human life upon your own safety is considered, the value, or utility, of other human lives to you is likely pretty damn high - in many cases a very substantial percentage of the value your place upon your own safety - compared to the value of your typical non-human life.
So there is nothing delusional about the utility to YOU of other people's lives. The only delusion here is yours about your own perceptiveness, and about the utility of your strident yet profoundly obtuse rants to others.