Hi Platt I don't buy hard wiring, more like fuzzy wiring. Me first certainly is not wired, how else have millions given their lives for their country?
DM ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Is morality Hard Wired? > Quoting David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi Platt >> >> You think they weren't organised? >> Did they not co-operate more efficiently than the wider population? >> & how would the many overcome the cunning few? >> United we stand? >> >> DM > > Hi DM, > > If we are hardwired to be empathetic and compassionate, a few thugs at the > top dedicated to silencing all dissenters wouldn't have been able to > control an > entire nation, killing millions in the process. Nor would the U.S. during > the > 40's have turned away a boat load of Jews trying to escape from Nazi > Germany. > History simply belies the notion of hard-wired morality except for the > morality > of the biological level, namely, "Me first." > > Platt > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:35 PM >> Subject: Re: [MD] Is morality Hard Wired? >> >> >> > Quoting David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >> Hi Platt >> >> >> >> But coercion requires cooperation. >> >> Let's get together later and bring some large sticks? >> > >> > It does? How so? A relatively few Russian KGB managed to coerce an >> > entire >> > nation, >> > murdering millions. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > 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/
