RE: Answers needed
June 26, 2015 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2015 at 9:10 pm by Louis Chérubin.)
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1. Probably not.
2. The Big Bang, but if the question is why there is something rather than nothing my answer is I don't know, don't think we as a species will ever know, and to be honest, don't really care; I don't need to have an answer to every question, and I think there are many questions we will never be able to answer with certainty.
3. Your life does not have a purpose but it is still amazing how it came to be - all that had to come before for you or me to be here today... millions of years of evolution preceded by our planet and solar system forming and everything all the way back to the Big Bang.
4. There is suffering in the world because you can't please everyone; every battle has a winner and a loser and every time something is given to one person there is another who cannot have it.
5. Probably not.
6. My view is that some of morality is conditioned and some of it is innate, and the part that is innate is geared towards not harming our own species. For instance the Nazi's achieved their evil by dehumanising the Jews, likening them to rats and lice. The converse of that is that we treat animals better when we ascribe to them human feelings and motivations. It makes perfect sense to me because there are other biological rather than mental effects that achieve the same results: for instance I saw a programme about Cannibal tribes who got a strange disease that caused them to shake whenever they ate human flesh; nature's way of saying 'don't eat your own kind'.
7. I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. What is truth in this context?
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6. Interesting. Though, using kuru (the disease) as evidence of the evolution of morality sounds dubious.
7. I mean objective reality. (Please don't read into that too much.) This question comes from the fact that our thoughts may be driven by purely chemical processes and therefore may perhaps be unverifiable.
