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Originally Posted by Lefazz  I don't necessarily agree with this. I believe empathy is an evolutionary trait that help helped us survive. We're not especially adapted to exist in the wild alone, you know. We are a social species and obviously if anyone had a genetic tendency to harm individuals in the group they would've been weeded out pretty quickly. We could have not been successful if the majority of us were killing each other.
So, yeah, I think basic moral codes are a selective trait via evolution. |
Tell that to Africa.
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Originally Posted by Jedah I don't at all agree with a word coming out of Arakkis' mouth at this point, but science is inherently amoral. Science hasn't done a thing to advance morality because thats not the role or scope of science; ethics and morals are intangible values, and science deals exclusively with the physical and the readily observable. |
That's cool. I hope that I at least provoked some thought in people that had previously decided they were unchangeably on one side or the other. I do however agree with your point. However I would say that the pursuit of science can have a morality attached to it. Nailing a dog's feet to a board to see how it reacts is immoral no matter the future applications the data produced from such an experiment could have.
