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To: PatrickHenry
Darwin thought these moral emotions of indignation at injustice would have evolved to favor cooperative groups.

This is still a conditional or relative-valued morality. Logically, you would have to also support injustice as "moral' if it were more useful in survival/reproduction.

You can't get to an absolute (non-conditional) morality from here. So in this instance Darwinism supports the left's moral relativism.

72 posted on 07/23/2006 11:37:02 AM PDT by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr; PatrickHenry; ClaireSolt
Good point, D-fendr

Add to this yet another key understanding of conservatism: it recognizes the imperfectability of human nature and therefore rejects the false hope of an ideal order (so often promised by modern isms) that it would produce "given time plus chance."

According to Edmund Burke, a principal forerunner of conservatism, the moral perfectibility of human nature in this life is atheism, the moral imperfection of human nature theism.

76 posted on 07/23/2006 11:47:32 AM PDT by cornelis
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