(September 12, 2013 at 1:56 am)Lunalle Wrote: My question is this: Do we have an obligation to live according to a moral standard, based on maximizing the prosperity of our genes, or our species?
No. The continuation of the human species isn't a moral obligation. It would be nice for us to persist but I don't think we have any ethical or moral obligation to make our decision based on upon it. We should however make choices based on limiting the suffering of others which can sometimes lead to the same outcome.
