[MD] Morality and Prudence

[John Carl]

I note you went from "animals have empathy" to "mammals have empathy".  And
yah, I agree completely.


dmb says:
>  Anyway, since the point was made in terms of what various kinds of mammals
> can do, in terms of what's basic to what "we" do our branch of the
> evolutionary tree, and in terms that specifically excluded "it", then a
> reasonable person should conclude that I'm talking about human morality, and
> not about rocks or atoms. In effect, you're criticizing my comments for
> being limited to the actual topic, namely empathy, the thing that
> sociopathic personalities do not have.
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> dmb says:
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> But seriously, empathy has tremendous evolutionary advantages and the MOQ
> is not opposed to scientific facts such as those produced by primatologists
> like Frans DeWall. I mean, we can look at such findings from an MOQ
> perspective even if Pirsig did not comment on them specifically. That's just
> par for the course, isn't it? That's what thinking is for, no?
>
>
Right on.

Mammalian empathy is the basis of all social patterning.  Is what I've been
trying to say for some time now...

John