Originally posted by Starrman Don't be such a dunce. If you honestly intend to support such a view, I will be forced to abandon what little respect I have left for you. This really is the most appallingly retarded thing I've heard from you to date.
Starrman, I beg you, bail out of this now while you still have your senses and before your head explodes.
Originally posted by dj2becker If you teach children that they are apes, will you be surprised if they go ape?
Edit: There are soooo many other reasons... Now are you gonna answer my question and just give me [b]one reason?[/b]
Here's a simple reason - by teaching that man is a highly evolved creature, one could argue that human morality is superior to animal morality (or lack thereof). Therefore, the Columbine killers would be abandoning their 'superior' humanity to return to 'inferior' bestiality in killing their fellow-pupils.
Originally posted by lucifershammer Here's a simple reason - by teaching that man is a highly evolved creature, one could argue that human morality is superior to animal morality (or lack thereof). Therefore, the Columbine killers would be abandoning their 'superior' humanity to return to 'inferior' bestiality in killing their fellow-pupils.
But why would this discourage them? I thought natural selection had to do with survival of the fittest?
Originally posted by dj2becker If you teach children that they are apes, will you be surprised if they go ape?
Edit: There are soooo many other reasons... Now are you gonna answer my question and just give me [b]one reason?[/b]
You call that a "reason"? Oh my f-cking God! I can't believe people like you exist. Have I been so naive as to assume you have a small amount of intelligence? I think I have.
Originally posted by dj2becker But why would this discourage them? I thought natural selection had to do with survival of the fittest?
One could argue that a moral being (like man) is "fitter" than an amoral being. So, by rejecting human morality, they are becoming less "fit", not more.
One could argue that a moral being (like man) is "fitter" than an amoral being. So, by rejecting human morality, they are becoming less "fit", not more.
You can argue this now. But were these kids taught this at school?
Me thinks the TOE is taught as a scientific theory and the kids have to make up their own morality. I don't know of any occasion where the TOE adresses morality.
Btw: How does the TOE explain morality in the first place?