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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (251424)5/29/2014 2:17:09 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) of 542148
 
It seems to be instinctual. Compassion and empathy (or forms of it) are in our genes. Mothers protect their babies and some mothers protect others babies. As we become educated we hone those feeling with law, norms and mores. Most animals e.g. have an instinct to protect their young or tribe, clan, pod, herd, etc.

We then internalize those feelings they seem unique, but look how different animals like friendships and will eve protect each other.

Humans cooperation is part of what made us so strong. But all animals have it and it is shaped differently.

On a higher philosophical plane I feel compassion, kindness and empathy, is an ethereal axiom that holds throughout the infinite universes. A truth of the universe. Any and all sentient beings would understand it.

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What are you taking about? A philosophical base for our actions is all we atheists have.

Which is what? Or where does the philosophic impetus to do "good" come from in an atheistic world?
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