| > Statements like "you are wrong" indicate more confidence to me than statements like "I believe." Well, yeah, but my confidence is grounded in knowledge because I've actually read the book. (Also, you made two statements. The one I was criticizing was not qualified by "I believe" but rather simply stated as a bald fact.) > Are you familiar with the is-ought problem? Yes. > If so, what do you make of it? How does that fit with your understanding of evolution as creating moral good? You are moving the goal posts. The statement that you made which I was criticizing was: > I believe that book addresses how certain behaviors may have evolved. That is UNRELATED to whether those behaviors are in an abstract sense "right" or "good". [Emphasis added] So I did not say that evolution "created moral good". What I said was that the claim that "evolution is unrelated to whether behaviors are in an abstract sense 'right' or 'good'" is wrong, i.e. evolution is related to whether behaviors are in an abstract sense 'right' or 'good'. But I did not say how it is related. If you want to know that you will need to read the book. |