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May 09, 2007 15:33

Biology, as a discipline, is mired in context. Isolating a 'moral center' in the brain could lead to new developments in neuroscience, but just studying that part of the brain, without the context (here culture), will tell us little of the actuality of morality. There is a complex interaction between the organism and its enviroment; a healthy human ( Read more... )

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anthropoidae May 10 2007, 22:53:02 UTC
P.S. Sociobiologists are dicks.

http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html

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anthropoidae May 14 2007, 21:39:58 UTC
so are christians:
Leviticus 25:44-46 "Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."

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