If people have thinking brains, they're not dead.
Not with you. Talking abt consistent human principles that span the ages and are pan-cultural.
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Yep. Helps to realise that as data, cultures are highly contradictory, and thus mostly useless.
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Empathy, compassion, a sense of justice, a dislike of lies, jealousy, honour etc are basic human moral emotions.
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Indeed, that is usable. ;)
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Well, this is what I am talking about. The basis of human morality which exists more simply in other social mammals.
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The concepts won't exist without humans but cld exist again if social mammals with complex brains & language evolved again.
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Exactly, lol.
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Are we at cross purposes? I thought you were saying ethics could exist without humans to formulate them and value them?
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Well, it can and it can't. Theory needs humans to produce, but once produced, it can live without us. Why we have ancient texts.
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