(September 4, 2013 at 11:40 am)max-greece Wrote: Our solitary person on the island discovers there are wild pigs. He sets traps and mortally wounds one. He has 2 choices - let the animal bleed to death in great pain or put it out of its misery ASAP.
If he chooses the latter he is making a moral decision that does not relate directly to his survival.
But it does relate an other conscious being.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.