Re: Rights and Morality: The Primethic Decision

From: Keith Elis ('Hagbard Celine') (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Sep 30 1997 - 17:37:13 MDT


EvMick@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 97-09-28 12:47:03 EDT, you write:
>
> << >Lots of things that are moral can be anti-survival. >>
>
> This posses a question for me....my DEFINITION of morallity is that which
> tends toward promoting survival...Ethical/Moral=pro-survival.
>
> EvMick

Not disagreeing at all, but please expand. In particular I'm interested in
your foundation (presumably evolutionary?) and arguments for this ethic.
Anders has discussed his ethics of complexity a little, and I have a feeling
that the two may be interrelated, especially at the point where evolution and
entropy diverge.

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