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To: edsheppa; betty boop
That'll go right over her head. Something about Gawd-ah making people such that they understand each other better than the 'lower animals'

I prefer this example:

Smart Dogs

Dogs can innately understand human cues, emotions, and have adopted logical strategies to deal with humans and each other. Even chimps don't exhibit this level of understanding and intuition.

Over a couple of millennia, we've breed into these dogs (via the same mechanism as evolution) some quite astounding social features.

It's not hard to imagine how complex social skills such as morality can develop (and become innately fixed) within a social species.
188 posted on 10/15/2007 6:57:47 PM PDT by UndauntedR
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To: UndauntedR
It's not hard to imagine how complex social skills such as morality can develop...

I don't think it's morality per se that is innate but rather more fundamental values and feelings. Rational analysis operates upon that to, e.g., combine innate senses of fairness and empathy into the Golden Rule. These invented rules are then ingrained as culture. The combined effect is what we call morality.

189 posted on 10/15/2007 7:41:00 PM PDT by edsheppa
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