Ppl don't literally deny mammalian properties. They can't. They present animal status, carnality, biology as bad
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to the extent that we seek privacy for sex & defecation & mean other animals when we say 'animals.'
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And talk of overcoming our carnal desires in all sorts of contexts. And have ideas of pure spiritual parts.
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We have a distaste for biological needs & feel shame. We relate failures to do this to 'behaving like animals.'
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This is what I mean by an instinct to deny that we are mammals - to suppress & shame the 'animalistic' bits.
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Theres no objective reason for sex/defecation in private or for seeing virtue in forms of 'mortifying the flesh'
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What makes you think this? You think virtue is irrational?
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You think saying that there's nothing objectively good abt asceticism means there's nothing good?
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I want to know why you think there is nothing objectively good about asceticism. I think it is objectively good.
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I've read this distaste or instinct may have evolved to benefit our health & our social structures.
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Not talking abt disgust as self-protection here but a denial of our animal nature due to various psychological needs.
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Don't want to keep you up if you need to get to sleep, tho :)
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I must sleep, yes. This is my review of the book which argues this to be part of our fear of death. http://helensatheistblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/review-of-life-in-light-of-death-by.html …
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Cool, I need to get the book! Personally, I think mortality will be conquered by technology, tho. Within the next 50-100 years.
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It talks abt that too.
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Have a good night :)
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