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To: jennyp
No moral code can be self-serving.

Who says so?

1,035 posted on 06/18/2002 3:08:37 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC

No moral code can be self-serving.

Who says so?

It would be self-contradicting in practice in any community. Self-serving applications of a moral code based in self-interest, in practice, is crime: theft, rape, even murder. A society filled with rampant theft, rape, & murder cannot even get started. It's not an evolutionarily stable strategy.

I don't know if this is an analytic or a synthetic statement, but I can't see how such a society could ever survive, let alone thrive.

Can you?

1,047 posted on 06/18/2002 4:19:25 PM PDT by jennyp
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