Redefining Good & Evil

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

And a thriving community is...good? Sounds circular.

Haha! Echoing the naturalistic fallacy of G.E. Moore then?

Fine. And I do accept the challenge as a valid one. Saying that something is natural and therefore good is an argument that begs the question. Some of the socio-biologists went as far as to claim there is a "rape-instinct" in men who just don't get a mate. That is obviously wrong. It must be.

One can't say "success in the process of evolution" = good.

But if we discuss where morality comes from we can not shut our eyes to the fact that all the other primates act as we do - or that all the other gregarious animals do it. We have nice concepts of it and think it in elaborate terms but in the end we act similarly.

And no wonder the one rule that is common with all of the mankind and the different cultures - the "golden rule" as we know it - seems to be the one shared by all gregarious animals...