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An Evolutionary Basis for Ethics?

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hooah212002
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12-22-2009 1:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by ATheist
12-22-2009 12:41 PM

Monkeys, ants, whales, horses, dogs, etc., are all incapable of truly choosing.
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What makes you think this? How do you know that Chimps cannot make choices?
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people
-Carl Sagan
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12-22-2009 2:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 10 by ATheist
12-22-2009 1:54 PM

I didn't say you were un-clear. I said "how do you know?". What makes you think that way? Is there any viable evidence that animals do not have the capacity for this rationale?
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