RE: My Five Wills/Code of Ethics
June 23, 2013 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2013 at 2:16 pm by pineapplebunnybounce.)
(June 23, 2013 at 1:31 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: All this is nice and all, but when you're looking death in the face unless I intervene: are you gonna be like, ah naw she's fine just standin there doing nothing; its not an evolutionary benefit for her to die saving me.
NO
You're going to scream and beg for that life and when I give it to you in exchange for mine, then everything you do with the rest of your life will be because of me; children for our species who otherwise would not have existed will exist and down the line my sacrifice will be responsible for an entire population. What's the difference between you and me if we both lack god?
Hm. Let's assume that this person does beg for you to relinquish your life for theirs, by doing so they're, in a way, refusing to die for you. If you die for this person, who is a not a kin (does not carry your genes), the genes that gave you the ability to die for them, would die with you. Yes their children will live on, but they will have the gene of begging others to die for them. This is of course oversimplification, but that is the difference between your next generation, and someone else's next generation. In other words, they're begging because it's evolutionarily beneficial to them, your dying is not beneficial to you.
I assume of course that you're speaking about the difference in value in the evolutionary term.
Quote:We all find ourselves helpless at one point or another in our lifetimes. Fact of the matter is, you don't know how you'll react till you find yourself in that predicament. If there's one thing I've learned, its that when you are in that position--the position of facing the last few moments of your life--your instincts for survival kick in. You'll be begging, and you'll be pleading for help. Every inch of you including that reasonable brain of yours will want one and one thing only. Survival. The difference between you and I is that when faced with myself I would be saved and if faced with yourself, you would die with a feeling of injustice.
I agree that in the end it'll all be up to fear and instinct. Interesting, you're saying that a culture of everyone willing to die for others would be very beneficial to me if i am ever in the situation of having to die, so contributing to this culture is a good thing.
Except that if you contribute to this culture, not just by encouraging others to die (begging for your own life), but by actually dying, all the potential benefits are gone. So yes you are right that if this culture exists and you ever find yourself in this situation it'll do you a lot of good, but only if you play the role of a freerider.
