From: Miguel Azevedo (miguel1626@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2009 - 03:09:22 MST
2009/2/14 Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com>
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> Your ethical beliefs were chosen by your ancestors. You don't have a choice.
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Yeah, we abolished slavery because evolution made us do it :)
Given current human brains, there *is* such a thing as moral progress,
which is largely independent of selection pressures (even though the
framework necessary for enabling such progress was sculpted by natural
selection).
- Miguel
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