I note you went from "animals have empathy" to "mammals have empathy". And yah, I agree completely.
dmb says: > Anyway, since the point was made in terms of what various kinds of mammals > can do, in terms of what's basic to what "we" do our branch of the > evolutionary tree, and in terms that specifically excluded "it", then a > reasonable person should conclude that I'm talking about human morality, and > not about rocks or atoms. In effect, you're criticizing my comments for > being limited to the actual topic, namely empathy, the thing that > sociopathic personalities do not have. > > > dmb says: > > > But seriously, empathy has tremendous evolutionary advantages and the MOQ > is not opposed to scientific facts such as those produced by primatologists > like Frans DeWall. I mean, we can look at such findings from an MOQ > perspective even if Pirsig did not comment on them specifically. That's just > par for the course, isn't it? That's what thinking is for, no? > > Right on. Mammalian empathy is the basis of all social patterning. Is what I've been trying to say for some time now... John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
