On 6 Sep 2006, at 12:58PM, John W Redelfs wrote:
My atheist father used to tell me that "might makes right" is a bad
philosophy? Why? Unless there is a God who is against it, why
would that
philosophy be any better or worse than any other? Upon what do
atheists base
their morality? I've never been able to understand this. If
selection of
the species is determined by survival of the fittest, isn't "might"
the
ultimate good, biologically speaking? The strong are just doing
nature a
favor by rubbing out the weak, preferably before they have a chance to
reproduce. Following this line of reasoning, would not killing
babies be
one of the "moral" things a person could do? That way only the
babies of
the strongest parents would be able to survive, and that would
improve the
bloodline, isn't that so?
That's just the naturalistic fallacy isn't it? Not very interesting.
Bored Maru
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