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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (78567)4/21/2000 3:42:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
a consensus on what makes us most human.

I would point to two things - first, the ability to learn from experience, and second, the ability to refine communication to a degree which enables us to teach others what we have learned, thus allowing cumulative learning. These abilities are not unique to our species, but we possess them to a far greater degree than any other species. These factors alone can account for everything our race has accomplished.

What would you say? Shall we ask the others, and try to form a consensus?

As I said, logically, morality comes first.

I still have not seen any chain of logical reasoning to support this contention. If morality comes first, where does it come from? Why should we look to an explanation which requires us to believe in what cannot be demonstrated when a perfectly plausible explanation exists which does not require us to believe in what cannot be demonstrated?
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