On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dan Minette wrote: > > As far as the Nazi's being evil, you can say it from a philosophical camp, > but not without admitting to some sort of faith statements.
I think this is what W. was trying to get at when he said (and I paraphrase) "Whereof philosophy cannot speak, philosophy must remain silent." From his perspective this kind of problem just isn't the sort of thing an academic discipline called philosohphy can effectively address without corrupting itself. Lets look at > one popular attempt to ground morality in biology: considering things as > evolutionarily favored or disfavored. Isn't it an evolutionarily favored > behavior to wipe out groups that have the maximum variation from one's own > genes and taking over their slots in the ecosystem. Isn't it also genocide > and evil? Yeah, and I imagine it would lead to prodigious inbreeding and a tendency to show up in movies with "Deliverance" in the title. ;-) Marvin Long Austin, Texas
