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Old 03-17-2005, 12:36 PM
jimdmcevoy jimdmcevoy is offline
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Default Re: Question for Atheists and maybe those who believe in God.

I've read some posts here (not all of em some are long) and I think there is something everyone is missing as part of the reason atheists don't go around killing people when they feel like it.

Part of the reason is our intincts.

I reckon that we've evolved to want to not kill random people we meet. From an evolutionary perspective it's -EV except in certain circumtances to kill a random human.

I also think we've evolved to want to kill other people in certain situations, like war. Organized killing like this can be +EV from an evolutionary perspective.

But I'm going a little off topice here, my point is that we are born with the urge not to kill some random dude we meet, and I think most people are just coming up with reasons to explain why they don't want to kill people, like there was actually a time in there life when they would kill people for little reason, and then they thought it through, and logically came to the conlusion that they shouldn't

this thought process reminds me of how religious people start off believing in whatver religion they believe in for whatever reason, and then use their higher conciousness to try and prove what they believe in, instead of using their higher conciousness to figure out what to believe

/end rant
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