Abusive Theology 101

[John V]

No, I'm arguing that you're focusing on approval and disapproval in a conversation about good and evil.

I necessarily focus on behavior when considering animals, as we can't interview them.

I think you might be misunderstanding the sense in which the word 'natural' is being used.

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c. Biology Not produced or changed artificially; not conditioned: natural immunity; a natural reflex.

That is, we're talking about innate/instinctual vs. learned/conditioned

I'm not the one who brought up gorillas, but regardless of how satisfied you are with the distinctions, chimps and gorillas illustrate that moral concerns aren't limited to humans, and aren't based on good and evil...more the other way around. A 'sense' of empathy and fairness is not unique to humans, but combining those feelings with moral reasoning and abstracting them into concepts like good, evil, and justice is unique to humans, as far as we're able to discern.

That's pretty much a NSS observation.