Wow, what science are you quoting? The latest science says we are born with a sense of morality and fair play. It's the adult world of capitalism that indoctrinates a distortion to our real nature, not some selfish gene... that would be fake science. youtube.com/FRvVFW85IcU
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According to Richard Dawkins, "one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives." abc.net.au/qanda/religion…
In evolution, the strong eat the weak. Why should the strong be compassionate to the weak?
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Ah, because the human species has evolved above the animal kingdom by way of reasoning and in general we help the weak. Dawkins' outlooks are tainted by capitalism. @frescotweets was more accurate about human nature.
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But why help the weak, especially if its going to cost you? How does your ethical priority of compassion survive Nietzsche's critique: its a non-seqitur to say "man descended from apes, therefore let us love/be compassionate to one another."
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When the question is asked why help the weak as its going to cost you, this becomes a dumb conversation John. There's the hypocrisy of the Christian mindset, posing an argument against the words of Christ. Matthew 7:12: the Golden rule & Matt. 22:39: love thy neighbor. Good luck
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You misunderstand. I believe that people are made in the image of God, which gives people a very strong reason to be compassionate to the weak
If you don't believe that then what reason do you have to be compassionate when its inconvenient? What grounds your ethic of compassion?
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The ethics of compassion are the very thing that drives your heartbeat. It's the voice of the heart. You know, the heart has its own voice but to hear it the mind must be empty of beliefs. The human mind is a wasteland of delusional thought & produces no compassion. Its a twister
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How do you explain the horrors of human history if its the ethics of compassion that drives the human heartbeat? If people are so innately compassionate, then why is there so much crime?
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In modern times, cultural training (indoctrination) to the concept of capitalism and money. The way in which civilization is constructed around money is the aspect that controls the majority of human behavior. We all serve money. It's our #1 priority that we delusively ignore.
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Perhaps they were individually, but when you look at what we have done with weapons of mass destruction I’m not sure sure that is true collectively. The 20th century is the most violent century in recorded human history. Our barbarism is simply promulgated at arm’s length.
Apr 10, 2019 · 11:54 PM UTC
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