[MD] Is morality Hard Wired?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi Platt
> 
> You think they weren't organised?
> Did they not co-operate more efficiently than the wider population?
> & how would the many overcome the cunning few?
> United we stand?
> 
> DM

Hi DM,

If we are hardwired to be empathetic and compassionate, a few thugs at the
top dedicated to silencing all dissenters wouldn't have been able to control an
entire nation, killing millions in the process. Nor would the U.S. during the
40's have turned away a boat load of Jews trying to escape from Nazi Germany.
History simply belies the notion of hard-wired morality except for the morality
of the biological level, namely, "Me first."

Platt
 
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <pholden at davtv.com>
> To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] Is morality Hard Wired?
> 
> 
> > Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:
> >
> >> Hi Platt
> >>
> >> But coercion requires cooperation.
> >> Let's get together later and bring some large sticks?
> >
> > It does? How so? A relatively few Russian KGB managed to coerce an entire 
> > nation,
> > murdering millions.
> >



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