> [SA previously]
> Krimel, I'm wondering, do you suggest that people
> are morally hard-wired good due to babies not going
> around trying to kill people? Where does your
> suggestion/basis come from? I really am interested
> in knowing.
>
> [Krimel]
> The book I have been referring to spells this all
> out. But essentially
> Shermer is saying that we as animals on this planet
> evolved under very
> different conditions than the ones we live in today.
> Primates are for the
> most part social creatures...
> ...We evolved to live among 150 family and friend
and
> we come out of the womb
> surrounded by millions of strangers. Instead of
> being able to interact in a
> way that we are genetically equipped to act we must
> rely on rules. We become
> rule based in our thinking and our actions. Rules
> help us adjust and
> compensate for the fact that this is not what we are
> genetically equipped to do naturally.
This last sentence threw me off. Rules help us
compensate for what we are NOT naturally equipped for?
What are we naturally equipped for, and what are
we NOT naturally equipped for? Are you just talking
about all these numerous strangers are what we are NOT
naturally equipped for? And what is good is naturally
based due to trust and fear, etc... or in other words,
it's all in the family, therefore genes selection,
etc... If so, then that's why the last sentence threw
me off, for it seems to say rules are counter to
natural selection of what's good for the family, so to
speak, is good for our children and our children's
children. If it worked now, then it'll work for the
generations to come?
SA
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