RE: Morality is hard wired and can be turned off
April 4, 2010 at 1:10 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2010 at 1:25 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
(April 4, 2010 at 2:28 am)fr0d0 Wrote: How can science change our nature? The bible states many times that Gods law is imprinted on our hearts... I don't see how this is altered at all.
I thought the article explained how 'we' or 'science' could alter our own nature. what's your malfunction?
(April 4, 2010 at 9:00 am)tackattack Wrote: DBP, I'm glad you haven't got arguements like that here, truly worhtless that would be. People shouldn't get their morality from anything other than themselves, forged though society and ideals, not unchanging dogma and fear.
I think we inevitably get most of our morals from fear whether from fear of hell, fear of jail, or fear of someone's revenge... I'm not trying to disagree with you, though, because i do agree with you on the most part - there is enough reason to be moral without the dogma of hell.
side note: i was reading a psychology book once that suggested that the Bible's support of waiting 'til marriage for intercourse was a product of fear of disease. STDs, during the time, were interpreted as the Christian god's punishment for promiscuous behavior. They must have noticed that the most promiscuous were likely to get infected or 'punished' and deducted that their god frowned upon promiscuity.
