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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 06:33 PM

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Question for Non-Believers

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Re: BTK

Evil sure is banal, wouldn't you say?

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 06:32 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Seeming, scheming

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Altruism doesn't, but the biological evolution of an altruistic impulse does [depend on reciprocity].

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So how do we explain pure altruism?

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My...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 06:04 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Rock Lobster

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I grab living creatures and make sure they are alive and with their full senses when I drop them in boiling water, in order that they die a boilng water agonizing death. Then I devour...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 05:59 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Athena

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Tit-for-tat is not altruism. Altruism does not depend on reciprocity.

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Altruism doesn't, but the biological evolution of an altruistic impulse does. My answer was consistent...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 05:38 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Out of Zeus\' head

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Fine, so the initial moral constructs were the result of the necessity to live in a society.

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There wasn't a "necessity" to live in a society. Snakes don't, for example. I...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 05:08 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Question for Non-Believers

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The only thing I'm asking is for you to prove to me is that things have purely intrinsic moral value. If you don't think they do then that's fine.

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Just so this doesn't get...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 04:36 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Robinson Crusoe was lost

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So are you saying that, just as the case has been for all other animals, social necessity begat human morality?

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I don't know what "social necessity" is, but a sense of...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 02:11 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Question for Non-Believers

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Animals were not given the thought process and ability to choose between right and wrong.

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"Do unto others as you would have done unto you." The Golden Rule, one of the first...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 02:07 PM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Question for Non-Believers

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The human brain is designed by evolution to make moral judgments

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Why should the brain be designed by evolution to make moral judgments? If one considers...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 12:13 AM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Question for Non-Believers

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Evolutionists would argue that groups with moral instincts were more succesful than amoral groups.

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This is not really correct. The unit of selection is the gene, not the...

Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy

07-15-2005, 12:04 AM

Replies: 55

Question for Non-Believers

Views: 750

Posted By maurile

Re: Question for Non-Believers

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Do you merely just follow what others (who believe in absolute morals) believe in?

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No, that's what theists (claim to) do.

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Basically I'm asking..how do you know...

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