(July 3, 2013 at 6:42 pm)Consilius Wrote: How can morality be evolutionary if we need to be taught it? Is there a guy who came up with it and then taught it to everyone else? Is there a group of people who determine what we believe to be right and wrong?
I thought man was inherently evil. But we can all find out for ourselves, naturally, what "good" is. It's the moral landscape.
Actually, "good" exists because God does. It is an immutable product of an immutable being. Or can you tell us that, if circumstances change, murder can one day be accepted as moral?
This is very simple. Morality is the evolutionary the same way that humans know how to build spaceships. Both concepts are started as nice ideas, but over time they are refined as we grow and learn more and more about ourselves and the universe.
Certain people STILL accept murder as moral. The bible teaches that we should stone naughty children, and this law was upheld for the longest time. Capital punishment is still practiced in most areas of the world as a way to keep certain lawbreakers out of society. (Are you for or against Capital Punishment? If you are, then by definition you are a law-abiding murderer.) In the Muslim world there are "Honor-killings", and for the longest time the anglo-saxon way of solving a dispute was to challenge someone to a duel, where one person murdered the other.
So...looking at the overwhelming evidence of moral murders...yes, there's a chance that we could one day accept certain forms of murder as acceptable, depending on how our society grows and evolves.
