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Very entertaining. Had a good laugh. And I’m so glad the exalted professor was there to teach you. Obviously, you’re an uneducated (or worse, religiously educated) pathetic anti-science moron who’s too stupid to know that science answers everything there is to know about anything. Don’t you know this? Don’t you have Wikipedia? Have you been living under a rock? The answer is always, always, always…”science!” And we know everything there is to know and there is certainly no God! You’re just a “sick puppy” for asking for actual scientific evidence to their dogmatic statements. Stop asking them to answer questions. That’s mean and sarcastic.
I really don’t get why some people think you can appeal to science for morality. I mean, I get the “evolution” explanation that gets thrown up as the “answer,” but it’s weird that some people think that’s actually answering the question of true morality (what should I do), rather than just explaining why we feel like morality exists (why I do).
It is one thing when someone actually admits to it being a matter of opinion “Well, my brain gets the warm fuzzies when I feed starving children, so that’s why I do it – there’s not a higher thing to be appeal to.” I can relate to that – I don’t think Christian morality is all that much different (a little more long-term planning, perhaps). There are a few people in this section of the blogosphere that have admitted as much, but it’s just sad when people avoid the question entirely, as was seen in the OP..
I heard somebody say that altruism is selfish. It makes us feel good or alleviates guilt and that’s why we do it. I agree to a point. I think we do display flashes of genuine concern and those moments are when we are truly tapped into “morality”. When we’re acting without a thought for ourselves because we know (inexplicably) that it’s the right thing to do…that is true moral “goodness”.
When we’re acting without a thought for ourselves because we know (inexplicably) that it’s the right thing to do…that is true moral “goodness”.
Well, I think that’s fair, but I think conditioning is truly as good of an explanation for that too. If helping others generally does good things for us (akin to the selfish altruism you mentioned), then we become conditioned to helping others, even potentially to the point of hurting ourselves in theory. Somewhat in contrast to that, I would say doing the “right thing” is always better for us in the end. Granted, the following is a faith statement, but I don’t think there is every a really choice that will truly bring me more happiness/joy/pleasure (over a period of time) that is not the “right thing” to do. That’s kinda what I was referring to in the above comment.
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