Damn you, you're making me into an apologist. But billions of bullshitting believers didnt do the torturing. And your "two people" hardly acted...
You can't think of Hitler, Pol Pot or Stalin? Their ideas of sinners were non aryans or bourgois, purely constructed ideas, little different from...
Forget Freud and the Behaviorists, long dead and buried. I mentioned Bowlby because his attachment theory still hangs around, Piaget because he...
I agree with the above, but it really is more complicated than that. The effective functioning of a group is fraught with problems and for each of...
You're exploring the boundaries of definitions. In fact patriotism as a moral drive refers to loyalty to the community of people of one's nation,...
Morals are intuitions on what is "good" behavioral intent towards others (and towards oneself. - I've put that in brackets)
I think we're talking about different things
perhaps you're talking about virtue. In many warrior cultures gratuitous killing and being extra cruel is seen as a virtue. And maybe on Wall...
In the '30s Hitler got much support from rightwingers and big business, largely as a reaction the nation's communists. Further, he gained most of...
Crap! You mean...... all my life I 've been doing it all wrong?!
Absolutely. And furthermore your decision making will be harried by emotions and sentimentality, which, whilst very important, may be mistaken for...
Nah. But being a witch is genetically determined;). Only the degree of susceptibility to alcoholism/ drug addiction is heritable
Child psychology -and adult psychology for that matter- is a minefield of bollocks, largely because they (Bowlby, Piaget et al) forgot about genes...
The first example is more "etiquette", more like rules in a game, than true morals. The second is a better example of your point. It also shows...
i'm sure "hives and swelling" suggest an allergic reaction, otherwise it should affect everyone equally. Hives would be unexpected, nothing to do...
It's a little elastic partly because empathy looks only at consequences on other people, not at laws. The urge to stick to laws, rules,...
Because humans also have other drives, greed, status, lust etc, which can be allowed to override moral drives. Actually most of us do live by...
1. Yes (no) 2. No 3. Sleep = more comfortable but slightly (slightly) more risky than local. 4. Depends on your attitude. But I would ignore these...
Jews were made to live and trade inside an area called the Pale. If found trading outside of this area they were "beyond the Pale", i.e. behaving...
Heteros should be ashamed of bigotry against homosexuals. But should heteros be ashamed of feeling revulsion at the thought and the sight of two...
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