nemesis_juggernaut
If we see a child drowning in the rapids, we feel an impulse to want to help. Why? I ask why in light of another impulse, arguably a much stronger desire, which is self-preservation.
Because as the nature of the impulses evolve through the natural selection process all impulses that go towards the best chances for species survival {here on an individual basis} it follows that those animals that cannot overcome the self preservation instinct would lose the child and therefore one less chance for the passing on of this trait {inability to overcome self preservation}. Such animals would tend to extinction. Those that can overcome such tendency to self preservation would have their children continue the lineage.
They've assassinated their own conscience.
They have not assasinated their conscience so much as never had a choice in the nature of their conscience.
. I thought what I was arriving at was obvious, which is, I come back to my assigned seat and the man is sitting in it. I inform him that he's in my seat. Instead of apologizing for the inconvenience, he is simply indifferent to it. When I engage him in an argument, I am appealing to him to understand a sense of justice that I expect him to understand.
But you do not argue that it is an inate right, You argue that it is an agreed upon right since in your original point here.
You and everyone near you are in agreement that the man "stealing" your seat was "wrong."
Thus you reference not an inate standard but a social agreenment that aligns with what we have in the system of laws that humans implement by consensus.
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