What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Human distinctions of good and bad are evolutionary tools that need more precise definitions.
- In plain terms
- Our ideas of good and bad need updating.
- What can you take from it?
- Re-evaluate moral categories for accuracy.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are our moral labels accurate?
- How do we define good better?
Another view
Evolutionary roots might not always dictate current moral accuracy.
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'Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder.' To Anne Hewlett Fuller on this, our 63rd Wedding Anniversary and my 85 Birthday---July 12, 1980
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