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Originally written by Lenar Labs:

Wait! What?
Okay... I realize that Thursday is Passover, but my roommate (who is Jewish) has never heard of Pesach before.

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Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

Before Judaism (the first religion to forcefuly impose its morals upon its followers) nobody cared if you murdered, raped or pillaged. So long as you didn't do it to their kin

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This is blatantly false. The statement in parentheses is questionable at best, and what follows is totally untrue. Judaism was neither the first religion nor the first moral code.

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Originally written by Butt Paladin:

And yet it happens inside of humanity. Let me remind you that we don't base our behavior off of the behavior of lions.

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At any rate, humanity, being a sexually-reproducing species, must have some form of consensus with itself. Given that, there is bound to be some form of society from an "evolutionary" standpoint. At that point, when a society exists, those who are most preferable to the society will be the ones people wish to dispose of the least and wish to help the most. Humans have a higher intelligence quotient than all other animals we are aware of: If we have organized into societies which do not butcher each other de facto (and while it is true that we kill each other, that we even observe it to be something unnatural is in itself anormal), there may be a reason for it.

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So you're saying that your mother and father only want you to succeed so that, um, they can pretend that they've succeeded in your stead?

What I pointed out was that there is an evolutionary prerogative for parents to care for their children. What you are "pointing out" is a bold-fased assumption.

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Originally written by Butt Paladin:

I call your bluff- for instance, wouldn't selflessness be most desireable in all forms except for a sexual one? Let's say that everyone has meat, and one person is generous with her/his meat. The other people will be more inclined to help this person and less inclined to get rid of such a person.

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In fact, I'd argue that empathy is virtually demanded by evolution-- how else, for instance, will children survive, if not by their mothers? Hell, even the famous liberal John Locke states that a union between woman and man arose from the desire to aid in a child's growth.

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Originally written by Hors d'oeuvre or ordure+V?:

—Alorael, whose personal belief is that everyone should be free to be as selfishly happy as possible until they start infriging on others' selfish happiness. At that point it becomes a question of balancing net happiness and net unhappiness to maximize the former and minimize the latter. This is, of course, functionally impossible ethical calculus, but it's a better creed than universal suffering for reward in the afterlife.

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Originally written by Smugglers' Alliance, Chief of the:

All forms of satanism are rather repulsive to me. Whether you worship Satan or not, the basic selfish tenets of the religion are rather dispicable.

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