Moral Naturalism (duplicate of RE "nick" etc.)
Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Jun 21, 2009; 7:40pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Moral-Naturalism-duplicate-of-RE-nick-etc-tp3129709.html
Russ,
It's not OK, but only because my relatives and friends would kill your relatives and friends if you did. Or, to put the matter more precisely, people who kill other people tend, when social environments are stable, to have had fewer offspring than those that don't. Ditto Rapists. Whenever social environments were unstable (See Death, Hope, and Sex by Jim Chisholm) rapists and murders did better, so alot of human cognitive and social developmental apparatus is devoted to figuring out what sort of a situation each individual is in.
this is the duplicate of a message I sent to the FRIAM list with the (much too large) file attached. Apologies to the list manager who should feel free to kill the version with the attachment.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
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