Here's one for ya: Humans are basically zombies... machines... They live out their genetic programs. The cycle of life. They don't have any true feelings that are of their own. They have no soul. All emotions are just chemical reactions in the brain, and mean nothing.... nothing if you're a zombie.
Or is this the other way about? Humans do have a soul. They all have a spiritual wavelength and emotions such as pain and love exist outside the physical realm of the brain?
I had an insight yesterday, it is probably possible to argue me to the ground on this but if there isnt a creative force of some kind there is no explanation for morality.
Morality DOES NOT give a survival advantage, therefor, surely moral genes would have been eliminated by now.
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Morality
March 19 2003, 10:45 PM
Ok, ok... What do you define as morals? I'd saying protecting your family's interest and defending them from a crazed man with a knife, morally just. That's a survival thing too, isn't it?
I'm still trying to figure out if morals are genetic. A child who grows up and constantly sees and experiences bad things may turn out to not know the difference between what is morally right and wrong. There are some people who just don't, can't or won't understand the concept.
For example, a young teenager brutally murders a 5 year old child... Then 20 years later on when the murderer reflects on what he/she has done may decide that what they did was wrong. That is a realisation. It was not always there from the beginning.
I think it would be morally right to write about rights of what is morally right.... right?