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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (78607)4/22/2000 12:28:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The link between aspiration and survival seems fairly self-evident to me, but it is good to be reassured by The Authority that I have done no harm.

Religion and philosophy, which are more directly relevant to morality, do in fact set forth ideas about our highest selves....

First, it has yet to be demonstrated that religion and philosophy are more directly relevant to morality than practical experience. Second, I don't think we've even started to come to a consensus of what our "highest selves" are. Personally, I would say that the part of me which comforts my daughter when she is afraid, or plays goofy games in the pool with my son, is higher and more "human" than the part of me which engages in moral discourse. I suppose there are other interpretations, but there is certainly no self-evident definition of what is "high".
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