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I think her argument was that religion offered an easy way to make moral choices.
There was just a case where a woman gave birth to a baby in the woods, left it there and left for a vacation. If it weren't for the family dog desperately trying to save the baby and getting noticed by a stranger, nobody would have ever known as even the rest of the family was defensive of the woman.
This shows morality is not only not an exclusively trait but not even an exclusively human trait.
I am not sure that I agree that the dog's behavior necessarily demonstrates "morality." You might be anthropomorphizing a bit. I am not a biologist or anything, so I could be way off base... But is it not possible that the dog was acting on instincts to protect newborn offspring? Similar to when animals "adopt" babies from other species as their own?
Morality implies that the dog did a thing because it's "the right thing to do," when in reality, it might have just been a self-preservation instinct kicking in. Dog sees newborn that's clearly the offspring of the being that takes care of it, dog tries to preserve that newborn's life in order to keep the gravy train going.
Just my (again, non-expert) thoughts.
You can remove the argument from morality safely from your answer just by stating the dog acted upon instinct, based off the notion dogs are pack animals, that have a closely knit symbiotic relatioship with human, which can be used to in favour of the dog finding a newborn activated the instinct of preserving their pack.
The way you approached the subject can be easily side tracked through arguing you are atributting self interest to the animals actions, as in, it keeps the newborn alive, thus, their own preservation is assured.
If acting on true self interest, the dog should have allowed the newborn to die.
Side note: who discards a newborn in such calous way? How unbalanced is the person?
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fuck that elon breeder
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Emphasis my own. Yes there is a self evident morality, you don't need God to tell you what's right and wrong.
To be fair, they're also saying that it's self-evident that our rights are given to us by a "creator". Which isn't true.
Your mama didn't give you rights?
If fear of divine retribution is your only reason for being a good person, then you are not a good person.
Having a god reign over some heads is a useful tool against those who don't share the same values, but fear the existence of a higher power.
As always, it's about lacking control and the frustration that comes with.
People always told me that Grimes was super smart, but every time she opens her mouth, it's some of the dumbest shit I have ever heard. She is the guy we all knew in high school, the one who takes mushrooms and stares at Tool album covers, and expects the rest of us to pretend they are brilliant.
This chick literally wrote an open letter to communists, saying that if they support Elon Musk, he will use AI to bring a communist system.
If she were to ever shut up, it may dawn on her that she is actually a fucking idiot, and we can't have that, so she never shuts the fuck up.
So... a female Joe Rogan, essentially?
She's very good and talented at music, and I stand behind that. But as you'll know if you see anything about personal lives of musicians, it doesn't automatically make her good at anything else.
Oh believe you me, I 100% stand by the first 10 years of Kanye, and artists' don't have the right to ruin nostalgia for our youth. We are not obligated to stand by old men or women just because they did cool things in their youth.
If she were to ever shut up, it may dawn on her that she is actually a fucking idiot, and we can't have that, so she never shuts the fuck up.
"It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die."
His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.
After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working."
Someone that fucked Elon should really keep ideas about morality out of their fucking mouth
Elon doesn't fuck, his dick is a bent twig. He has them fucked by mail order.
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How odd... You're not the first person who's told me that Catbox links aren't working either, I wonder what's up with that.
Anyways, I've changed the link so hopefully it'll load now.
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Shame and peer pressure are outsourcing ethics and never independently developing character.