Moral Acts

[Neo-Scholastic]

Men and women do the work, faith gets the credit, lol.

Why not if they are motivated by their religious beliefs?

On the advantageous nature of cruelty.  That seems to be what alot of people in prison thought, before they were imprisoned.

As have all the dictators and tyrants throughout history. Crime does pay, if you are clever enough not to get caught.

On your easy "justification" for slavery.  That's force and intimidation, might makes right garbage, not a justification.

Might makes right IS the justification.

The menial shit gets done now too, without anyone being a slave, in case you didn't notice.

Only since the industrial revolution. In the 200,000 years prior to that, history shows that slavery, serfdom, and indentured service were universally practiced.

On surviving and fluorishing...by -what- metric?  That the younger girl seems more fuckable, to you?  I mean honestly, Chad.........lol?  Something tells me grannies help us survive and flourish too...but in a pinch, we do have a tendency to prioritize the young.

Yes, because the 14-year old girl is fertile and the old woman is past child bearing years. In a pinch? Absolutely, right. Your own intuition reveals that human beings instinctively favor, however slightly, the healthy and fertile. Is that evolved instinct a valid basis for any moral principle? I have yet to see a naturalistic explanation for why Mankind should not take evolution into its own hands and practice eugenics. Why is it wrong to terminate the mentally disabled, crippled, and/or terminally ill? Why would it be wrong to intentionally divert resources to benefit of those deemed genetically superior to others? Remember, it's cheating to appeal to anything outside evolved instinct or practical advantages.

On the value of life. Does it matter whether or not the universe cares?  We care.  Is that not enough, not enough for whom, for what?

Yes, we care. But why do we care? Why should we care?