(June 21, 2013 at 5:01 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Are you saying that people have a moral obligation to be logical?I don't know if it's a moral obligation or not. It may simply be a conscious application of the instinctive drive to survive and propagate a species.
Quote:You keep using terms that make it sound like there’s a system of moral standards that apply to all groups. I am not sure how you can say one group is more “refined” than the other if no such standard exists. Thoughts?I think the only moral standard(s) that would be applicable in all circumstances is that which promotes the continued survival of the group. As the group becomes more safe and secure, they can place more import on social behavior beyond that needed to ensure their survival.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
