yes, but we do not aspire to have the "morality" of the rest of the animal kingdom. Do you think that we should? We are gifted with the potential to reach for higher levels of justice. By higher levels I mean a justice, morality, or ethics, that would provide the greatest welfare for all, "weak" as well as "strong", old as well as young, and it would even provide the greatest welfare for misguided individuals who act violently and so would help to reform them (as we also have this potential).
There's an implication here that other animals never act to protect other, weaker members of their species. This is not true.
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Thu 22 Feb, 2007 01:39 am
Mark, your initial premise may be accurate on the micro, but it is demonstrably faulty on the macro. Is this coincidence?
