[MD] Is morality Hard Wired?

[Krimel]

[DM]
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?

[Krimel]
Fuzzy wiring is so much less pretentious than "range of canalization".
Nice, I like it.

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>> 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
>