> [Krimel] > Well, chimpanzees don't need lawyers but they don't > have drive thru either.
[SA] Discussion of population size and this above, ok, but how does this show we are hard-wired for good? It was you that stated we are hard-wired for good, right? [Krimel] I don't think he is saying that we are hard wired for "good". He isn't really saying we are hard wired at all. He says that morality, good or bad, has an evolutionary basis. The Golden Rule certainly points to this. It is an expression of morality that exists in almost every culture in every time. He also has an Appendix with more than 300 traits that an anthropologist has identified as being universal to all human cultures. So it isn't really hard wiring. As DM points out it is more like fuzzy wiring. All behavior results from the interaction of biology, personal history and present circumstance. So even on a good day the wiring is only a third of the equation. To use a computer metaphor the hard wiring supports a wide range of actual uses. The comedian Greg Geraldo said something like, "I feel a little creepy teaching my kid to read with the same machine I use to masturbate with." 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/
