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>One's dogmatic and one's not. How are you not getting that?Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
There's a pretty good example above where someone tries to justify killing innocents as incontrovertibly wrong by authorities.
It serves as part of the primary basis of an ideology or belief system, and it cannot be changed or discarded without affecting the very system's paradigm, or the ideology itself.
Perfect, negate the value of humans and there goes humanism.
Humanism is dogma like every ism.
>Maybe, but without the community the individual giants wouldn't have done anything.Often the community suppressed those giants: Galileo et al. It could be argued they would've done more without this community.
>No, everyone needs play their part, everyone from the stars to the extras.You can always replace extras, they are expendable hence why they're extras.
>Which require a society.Actually those peers make a society.
>Morals help people cooperate.No they can get in the way. Look at today's oversensitive moral environment where shit like Donglegate happens. If people didn't care about the feelings of others but just focused on the topic at hand we wouldn't have wasted time that could've went into developing Python.
>Sure, you can have stability without advancement, but you can't have advancement without stability.War proves this wrong. War is probably the least stable time and yet there are so many advancements.
>I marvel at how the point gallantly flies over your tiny pseudo intellectual mind.If I'm pseudo-intellectual you're anti-intellectual.
>The presocialness came first, and allowed for our large complex brains to evolve.That's what happened, but that's history. Our intelligence is a result of our complexity which is a result of various things that happened prehistorically.
But notice how you left out the part about AI, it's too scary for you isn't it? The thought that something could be pure logic devoid of vestigial traits like empathy.
>Kin selection is part of morality.No it is not, it is not based on belief of right and wrong. Species that aren't even conscious work according to Hamilton's rule. Morality requires consciousness.
>Your shit tier 'thought experiments' don't prove or demonstrate anything. They're just biased what if scenarios. So much salt, of course they're biased. The whole point is to find scenarios where applying your morality will not work out very well.
>What you're doing, reinforcing your own preconceptions and beliefs with 'what if' scenarios of your own invention, is not skepticismI have no beliefs, you're the one here who believes in morality, son. I'm just testing to see if morality hold water and it doesn't as it has failed all my what if scenarios.
See I'm an atheist when it comes to morality, I have no beliefs of right and wrong.
>What I'm doing, answering the question of why humans have a concept of morality what it's purpose is by examining human evolution, is skepticism.No you're reinforcing your faith in morality by dodging questions that question you morality. That's far from skepticism, here you are bitching about questions. You've bitched about inquiry in the last few posts. Just because that inquiry does not come to the results you're looking for, support in your moral hogwash.
>said no secular humanist ever.Not directly, humanists believe life is not just about us but I see no proof of this. Strictly as far as I know for sure I'm the only conscious one but that's getting off track. Even if you are conscious (you probably are) believing my life is also for you is a belief. Until there is a sequitur argument why my life is for others humanism is a belief just as much as Christinsanity and Islam and all that stupid irrational shit.
>Seriously, it does feel like I'm talking to a kid, an autist and/or a troll. For real though, how old are you? Because if you're not in middle/high school, then you probably have some kind of neurological disorder.I feel so bad for you, slave to silly concepts like morality. Seriously if we're gonna talk about disorders empathy is up there. You feel bad just because someone else does, that's a disease. You at any time can have your state of mind depressed because someone else feels that way while I can just recognize they're upset and go about my business. I can mimic the empathetic response if needed while you can't control yourself.
Anyway I'll be gone to for the week, don't get too upset that your status quo is being challenged and doesn't hold up to scrutiny.