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To: Diamond
If mindless Evolution is true there is no 'correct' or 'right' moral code.

Sure there is. An evolutionarily-derived morality would promote the survival of the group (society) and hence its members. Societies lacking such concepts would cease to exist, while those promoting such concepts would succeed and reproduce.

947 posted on 09/15/2005 10:48:51 AM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: Junior
An evolutionarily-derived morality would promote the survival of the group (society) and hence its members

Why should I care what's good for society, or for the group? Where did this force, this law, to always seek the survival of the species come from? Where does this moral rule positing the good of the group come from? If you appeal to the good of society, you are already appealing to a prior moral rule that is in place and you need a further justification for that moral rule. Saying that it evolved begs the question.

Cordially,

953 posted on 09/15/2005 11:10:11 AM PDT by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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