[MD] Is morality Hard Wired?

[David M]

Hi Platt

I don't buy hard wiring, more like fuzzy wiring.
Me first certainly is not wired, how else
have millions given their lives for their country?

DM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pholden at davtv.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Is morality Hard Wired?


> 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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