On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ingrid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/11/16 Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'd rather ask it this way: can we rationally explain our morals without > stating it as a *belief* that something is right or wrong? I can't. It > appears to me that our brains are inherently irrational, but capable of > rationality as a (self) imposed discipline. > I can separate morality from religion, can rationally explain why I'm an > atheist, but can't rationalise the morals. >
Perhaps rationality follows a darwinian system of natural selection... with its own rules and mechanisms of selection.. You can rationally chose not to propagate...but that goes against darwinian selection...where the natural instinct is to use the ability to propagate...
