Wouldn't the pertinent info be whether they feel it's negative or positive (or neutral) to be unpopular in the group? — Terrapin Station
It's about people's preferences, their desires, — Terrapin Station
if we're talking about a person or persons who do not approve of or feel that helping others, sharing ideas, etc. are recommendable? — Terrapin Station
Anthropic principle — karl stone
Really? What exactly, in science points to a creator? — karl stone
So you're the absolute arbiter of right and wrong — karl stone
But it is by disproving others, potentially causing them pain — karl stone
but wish to retain the comforting sense that someone is on overall charge? — karl stone
But if your tribe believes that eating the heart of a vanquished enemy will give you his strength - then killing and cannibalism are good — karl stone
Acting on those idea - just following orders, they murdered millions of people, and they thought it right and good — karl stone
because right and wrong is a sense, not a definition — karl stone
what are your view on my statement "People are not fundamentally good" — diesynyang
How does atheism correlate with sadism? — karl stone
But I would argue we should put aside moral when we want to judge a person "Does he/she has High Intelligent or not?" — diesynyang
Right and wrong is a sense — karl stone
I think (For now) the only factor that made up intelligence is IQ. Hmmm, you are free to teach me more though — diesynyang
The intelligence of religious people is impaired by belief in something they can't know; such that the contents of the mind effectively disable the brain — karl stone
so we would go through twice the vegetation then we currently do speed up our eventually extinctio — Nathaniel
It started because evil people do really awful things that demonstrate, what shall I call, a different source of motivation — Valentinus
If a group of people have no food (draught , natural disaster , climate change) they should wait for one of their members to die of starvation before any of them can eat? Does this also apply to small children and the elderly whom may be unable to wait for their kinsmen to die? So we eat the children and infirmed first because they will be the first to go — Nathaniel
Good and Evil are not just the results of how one values one thing over another. — Valentinus
If person A is robbing/raping other people in a group and person B murders them, thus benefitting the majority of the group, is person B good or evil? both of them were acting in their own best interests,but by definition one if decidedly evil and the other good — Nathaniel
Good = the (inter)personal behavior you approve of, the (inter)personal behavior you feel is recommendable, etc. — Terrapin Station
That doesn't imply that other people will agree. Different people will have different opinions — Terrapin Station