Jon:
You wrote:
> Animal life is sacred to animals. Of course animals don't know what the word
> "sacred" means, but they care about their own life in a simple fundamental
> way. When their life is threatened, they care enough to fight or run for
> their life. You can call it instinct, but this instinct is a primitive moral
> code. Each cell in each animal also has a primitive moral code. Our crippling
> dependence on logic sometimes gets in the way of seeing this. We look at
> cells and just see biological functions. We don't see the Morality at work
> under the microscope, but it's there.
Excellent point. I especially like your definition of instincts as "primative
moral codes." The idea might be extended to include atoms and molecules
as having pre-primative moral codes. Similarly, the way particles and forces
"behave" at the subatomic level can be considered moral "conduct."
Platt
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