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Humans are moral creatures, even without God.
It is just that we are very far from home.
Just as Hamas extremists demonstrate the corruption of the the human mind under excessive trauma, Biden and Netanyahu demonstrate the corruption of the human mind under excessive power.
From the neuropolitical perspective: meyerja.substack.com/p/…
Humans are moral creatures, even without God.
It is just that we are very far from home.
Just as Hamas extremists demonstrate the corruption of the the human mind under excessive trauma, Biden and Netanyahu demonstrate the corruption of the human mind under excessive power.
From the neuropolitical perspective: https://meyerja.substack.com/p/a-measure-of-democracy
You are right. Humans are moral creatures, the question is whether morality comes from God or from natural selection. Of course natural selection does not rule out God; God may have created natural selection as the mechanism for life on this earth, something hinted at obliquely in Genesis.
Unlike many religious prophets who claim some special knowledge of God, I would say this is hubris, we cannot know the mind of God, we may be made in His image, but we cannot know his mind. To know the mind of God would presuppose our own omnipotence which humans do not exhibit.
And yes we are far from home. We are hunter gatherers whose lives are rooted in the here and now and small groups of a hundred or so people, but find ourselves in increasingly complex societies alienated from our true nature. All of our civilisations have developed a social pyramid where "elites" climb on the backs of the mass of ordinary people and ultimately destroy them. When our current civilisation falls as Hedges has pointed out, we will take the whole planet with us.
Morality comes from natural selection, in my opinion. The problem is that the biological rule of the survival of the fittest (including morality) has been interpreted by the elites as the survival of the fatest.
Yes, humans have not yet passed the evolutionary test called 'excessive wealth'.
Ant colonies die out all the time because of this.
I believe we will figure it: I have two kids.
Humans are moral creatures in spite of God