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To: Protagoras

> Incorrect. Getting CAUGHT for murder is out. Getting CAUGHT for rape is out.

Nope. Committing such acts greatly increases the risk to yourself and your potential progeny, at no gain. On a very basic level, these things do not pass the cost/benefit analysis required by the drive to reproduce. Over the last million or more years, as we evolved from a smart ape-like critter to the more or less civilized species we are now, this very basic math have been transmuted into morality. That's why there are a number of acts that are pretty much *universally* considered immoral.

> What you are saying basically means murder and rape are acceptable if ...

You convince people that God told you to do so?


74 posted on 01/26/2005 10:38:14 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam
Nope. Committing such acts greatly increases the risk to yourself and your potential progeny, at no gain.

Untrue. Many murders result in gain for the murder. There is a risk reward ratio.

Do you think that anyone has ever gotten away with murder? If so, were they OK to murder?

Were individual Nazis at great risk for murdering?

Over the last million or more years, as we evolved from a smart ape-like critter to the more or less civilized species we are now,

Wrong thread for that opinion.

That's why there are a number of acts that are pretty much *universally* considered immoral.

Ah. morality by vote. LOL If it's universally thought to be moral, it is. Liberals love situational ethics too.

You convince people that God told you to do so?

Impossible to tell what this comment means.

95 posted on 01/26/2005 10:51:27 AM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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