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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4270)2/2/2001 1:20:55 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Bland does not personally believe in the special sanctity of any one book of faith, but he also does not believe it is necessary to have such a book or body of opinion to fall back on to support the "intuition" that it is wrong for one individual to decide the life and death fate of another based on nothing more than personal preference...even if there were no real world consequences to suffer.

That intuition has to come from somewhere. I see no logical reason to suspect that it comes from anywhere but accumulated human experience, just like the rest of our "moral" values. For the vast bulk of human prehistory, we depended for our survival on the cohesion of small social groups. It is not hard to see how humans figured out that activities like theft, rape, murder, etc., that threaten the cohesion and thus survival of the group, need to be discouraged to the greatest extent possible.

Humans have traditionally been quite willing to accept all of these forms of behaviour when they are applied to members of other social groups; the notion that these values should be applied to all humans is a very recent one, and has yet be accepted in many groups.

I see no compelling reason to suppose that any of our moral values stem from any source other than ourt collective experience of what is expedient.
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