Krim Even overcoming selfish genes you might say.
All tendencies, few iron laws. Also DQ can clearly be very destructive, change is potentially dangerous. DM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Is morality Hard Wired? > [Platt] > Who is this "we" you speak of? A suicide bomber? Seems she would be > excluded > from the hard-wired morality of playing nice that some science types are > claiming evolved from our animal ancestors -- the monkey people. > > [Krimel] > When Shermer talks about this he notes the difference between, within > group > violence and between group violence. Among humans we call this tribal > warfare. Suicide bomber are practicing between group violence. They are > also > subject to substantial social pressure which may override hardwiring. > > To say that we inherit certain traits does not mean we can not overcome > them. It really just speaks to the difficulty in doing so. > > > > > > 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
