RE: List of reasons to believe God exists?
December 5, 2017 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2017 at 6:46 pm by Brian37.)
(December 5, 2017 at 5:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Wally, I have a question. What is your opinion on what humanity's moral standards should be based on? Or do you think there shouldn't be any standards? I am curious to hear your personal philosophy on morals and how you think they should be applied, what they should be based on, etc.
This question misses the point. OUR behaviors as humans are not being handed down to us, good or bad. Our species evolved to be social, and in doing that we have a tendency to defend that which is local and that which we are familiar with. Cooperation creates empathy, pain kicks in fight or flight. Outside that our species morality is mostly that which gets handed down to us by our parents.
Instead of thinking in terms of your holy book, understand it in evolutionary terms. You defend your family for the same reason these elephants protect their family.
For the same reason this cat protected this kid from a dog.
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^ Is where morality stems from, evolution. Cooperation creates empathy, pain causes fight our flight.