(September 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm)genkaus Wrote: Even if the only basis of morality in nature was from survival of the fittest and "might makes right" - which is most emphatically not the case...If that were so then you would see individual members of various species acting in ways that go contrary to their animal nature. That is never the case. Animals always act according to their animal instinct. For that matter, many humans seem incapable of transcending their own animal instincts. Only Man has the intellect capable of discerning moral principles and formulating codes of behaviour - be it the "golden rule", categorical imperatives, or simple taboos.
(September 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm)genkaus Wrote: - it'd still be a kind of morality.Not in any meaningful sense related to choice and responsibility.
