(May 26, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 26, 2015 at 3:00 pm)Heywood Wrote: Bolded by me
"Deserving of equal treatment" is an assumption. An unconscious non intelligent Nature does not evolve assumptions. If it is a fact that genders et al are deserving of equal treatment then the occurrence of such a fact is more likely the result of a meddling of an intellect rather than random happenstance.
And as I pointed out, nature evolved us as a social species, and it is the requirements of prospering as a social species which lead to the choice of egalitarianism. The meddling intellect evolved in such a way that this is the most profitable meddling. Our intellect didn't choose to make us a social species; we evolved that trait. The rest is contingent upon us having evolved to be a social species. No, egalitarianism didn't evolve as a free standing attribute, but even if it had, you've given no reason why it couldn't. You're strawmanning evolution by calling it mere happenstance; evolution works under the constraints of natural selection. You're misrepresenting that the alternative to your god theory is mere randomness; it isn't. We evolved our social nature as a response to the contingencies presented by the environment we evolved in, in relation to our phenotype. It wasn't "random happenstance."
Egalitarianism is a recent modern phenomena. It is not something we evolved. It is an assumption that certain human societies accept and other human societies reject. If it is but a choice and not a universal truth, then there is nothing wrong with a society deciding gays are lessor human beings or women shouldn't vote.