Re:Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have C...
by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @06:51AM
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Have you read the god delusion by Dawkins? There he takes on just that myth - there has been a very good body of research in presenting people with the same set of moral conundrums - every race and culture, even "primitive" have indistinguishable moral responses. (Obviously individual variance was high)
Worth a read.
Re:Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have C...
by tbrownaw on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @10:55AM
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There is no set of "universal morals" that all humans have.
What about « If "everybody" (who I identify with to at least such-and-such a degree) did X, would it harm me or my family/descendants? »?
But do realise this, since I'm not a moral relativity apologist. I'm going to say that moral systems are not equal and some backward societies need to get their systems fixed.