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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe our capacity for seeing the dignity in our fellow humans is the source of all morality and our sense of justice. Society is not so bad, afterall, even if a few members lose, overlook or never had that moral compass. 
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Sure.  Why not just say empathy provides an evolutionary advantage, and leave it at that.  No big guy with a beard and white robes living on a cloud needed.[/quote]

That is what I was saying. [/quote]

I thought so; I was just restating it differently.[/quote]

If nonbelievers are right, and human beings are living machines who come into being and go out of being as their parts come together and then fall apart, any value we assign to humans is granted, not inherent.  And when value is given, rather than intrinsic, [b]it can be taken away.[/b]
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Isn't that ability the step taken before atrocities are committed?  With so many examples of things like genocide and slavery, it is hard to argue it's not possible. Those of us without motivation to dehumanize see it for what it is. If you've ever believed in the death penalty, you've done the same by devaluing the life of another. [/quote]

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