Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
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