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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4372)	2/2/2001 6:19:03 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

>> I see no compelling reason to suppose that any of our moral values stem from any source other than our collective experience of what is expedient.<< That's almost certainly true...if what you are saying is that mankind's morality is mankind's achievement. But bland would not confine the impetus to expediency alone. Kind people are kind often simply because they are kind. They are compassionate and empathetic simply because that is truly their nature. They are not making some unconscious primal trade-off simply to avoid being eaten by bigger dogs and to therefore survive to pass on their kindness genes, blah, blah, blah... There is a component to morality, in other words, and in bland's opinion, that is constructive, not simply defensive or apotropaic.