(July 6, 2013 at 4:44 pm)Inigo Wrote: Jack really loves disembowelling prostitutes. He bloody loves it! He's got terminal cancer and is going to die next week. He decides he'll disembowel one last prostitute for old time's sake.
If you think he has reason not to disembowel a prostitute but do not believe there is any god or afterlife kindly explain.
Did you just read parts of my post, or did you actually take some time to read it? My comment addresses your current question.
But here:
Jack doesn't have a reason not to disembowel a prostitute. That's his prerogative. There will always be outliers like Jack in this world. They are not the norm, they are the exception. If people like Jack were the norm, it would be detrimental to the survival of our species.
Jack's brain is wired differently. To him, there is no moral issue at hand. Well, maybe there is and he ignores it because of some demented condition. To the average human being, what Jack is doing is immoral. But we aren't all going to agree on the exact reasons why it's immoral. This is what I meant when I said that there seems to be a universal set of morals that we all follow different paths to reach.
The evolutionary reason for the norm to find Jack's action immoral is because we are a social species. We survive because of our numbers and our collective intelligence.
Anyone else hearing that broken record? I sure hope you actually read my comment thoroughly this time.
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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