Quote: (01-07-2015 02:53 PM)Plato Wrote:
Being good is not difficult.
Evolution (and not religion) is the reason that people act altruistically.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/altr...58399.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_equat...f_altruism
If most people followed the instincts that evolution has give them. They will do good. It is only when they act in a way that they (instinctively) know to be wrong that problems occur.
Yes, our sense of morality evolved. That doesn't answer why we think it's true or why it exists in the first place.
Our ability to do math and science also evolved.
If you're not fucking her, someone else is.