Having reduced Man to just a product of evolution you (not I) have removed the ability to "judge between right and wrong".
One takes many, many , many lessons from Nature (and Evolution)
Might is right" is all that there is. What are you smoking?
Oh, so you want to quarrel about the word "right"? You're just engaging in semantics. The bloody tooth and the claw, rule in nature and we are simply part of nature. You want to hold Man to a higher standard but you provide no logically compelling reason to do so.
No a better question is not what has Solon been smoking , but where have you spent the entire main portion of your life? Out on a distant remote veranda with starving lions surrounded by demons, devils and angels of apocolypse?
Of course some parts of Nature are tooth & claw, eat or be eaten . There are also many examples of maternal-love & mating for life ....amazing migrations (pilgrimage?) of 1000's of miles to "Meccas & Holy lands".....tool~making , bonding , friendships , and mutual grooming .... to even mourning the dead as some elephants & primates have been known to do. Some creatures such as the Toroise live amazingly long and gentle lives harming nothing . You just love to <font size=4> seeeeee <font size=3>evil everywhere don't you ? To justify a nurturing God and savior you would transfix all of nature inot something that has no direction , is evil and bloody ....and on the lowest planes of existence .
Good Lord above , how one-dimensional of you, and you are what you
<font size=4> "seeeeee ".... <font size=3> and preach...
You have not explained why we should "value other creatures". In fact ethics are what we are trying to establish. Starting with the ethic of value to explain ethics is circular and begs the question. Engaging in ad hominem is the refuge of those who have lost the argument.
Jesus Christ Almighty Greg , human beings are directly related to many of the higher primates ....we come from social groups and tribes that worshipped, lived off of , and studied/revered/feared and lived with animals for 1000's of years and lived in relative harmony . Those observations of animal behavior taught us many lessons of value , not all of them brutality you fool but many lessons of love and gentility, caring and compassion.
Along comes the humanist Jesus , and you think he was on to something sacrificing himself, instead of a dozen bulls or goats as they were doing ?
Just hurts to think of Jesus as a great humanist reformer doesn't it ? And was God a humanist too? Well he fashioned/created "Man" in his own image ----> so that would probably make God the first and GREAT HUMANIST , wouldn't it ?
See evil speak evil and hear evil....and lo and behold evil is everywhere ! |
