yes, useful. Dm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Krimel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Is morality Hard Wired? > DM, > > See, as always, we almost agree, a lot. > > There is a term for this that I really like but is seldom used: range of > canalization. It helps understand the relationship between heredity and > environment. > > Krimel > > -------------------------- > > 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/ > > 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/
