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RE: Are our emotions enough of a reason to support the survival of mankind?

in #writing7 years ago

And it's remarkable that we are even in that state of awareness I suppose is what I'm getting at.

And I think the reason we bother to label good or evil at all is for the survival of a particular group of people. Order, control, and all that stuff.

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it's remarkable that we are even in that state of awareness I suppose is what I'm getting at.

That for sure is amazing. I love being able to sit under the full moon and think about the many tales about werewolves, think about the stars far away, the constellations and how tiny I am in comparison. And then a bird flies over and I feel a little shame that maybe no other animal can enjoy the pleasures of awareness.

And I agree with you, I think that the concept of good and evil depends on the person who thinks of them. Each society has a different set of morals and globalization homogenizes these morals. But before, it depended on the rulers, the "chief" society, the one that survived and was stronger in the wars, be them physical with weapons or cultural/economic.