Baby horses must be able to get and run as soon as they are born. This is a behaviour, and it must be inherent to the physical biology.
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If this true then why is there a choice to do good and do bad? If behavior is biological and not free will, then there would be no choice for our actions. They would simply be natural processes
It is natural for a pack-hunting animal to concern itself with the wellbing of and its relationship with its packmates.
If we really had free will, how would we know what was good and bad?
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So murder can be right for you but not for me?!?!?! I can see how evolution would support this fact and it leaves me with an undeniable sense of relief that I believe in a social system where right is right and wrong is wrong.
So how do you feel anout American troops murdering Iraqis? Or, about Israeli troops murdering Palestinians?
Thats exactly how murder can be right and wrong simultaneously - it can depend which side you are on. And that FACT tells that morality is in large part socially controlled.
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Al Quaida terrorists are extremists. They believe that crashing a plan e into the World Trade Center was a religious crusade and they would be eternally glorified for that action. If moral absolutes are not held then we as the victims can just say "Well, if its they think that's the right thing to do then we can't interfere." No, behavior has to have a moral structure (right and wrong).
Isn't it fortunate for them then that were striking a blow against the greatest purveyor of tyranny and terrorism on the planet, so what they did was undeniably right and good?
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If this is true then carnivores such as lions, sharks, etc. are the same as murderers. Except that carnivores kill so they can live....Why do humans kill other humans? Does it benefit our existence? Carnivores kill because they have to and its instinct but humans function on a level of right and wrong. You don't have to be a scientists to see it.
Except that for nearly the entirety of recorded human history, we have existed in a state of perpetual war. So no, you don't have to be a scientist to see that unviversal brotherly love is a fiction.
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