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<description>Recent comments in this blog</description><item><title>Nathan</title><link>http://www.nmmng.co.uk/47ae4076#946</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.nmmng.co.uk/47ae4076#946</guid><dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well put. Once we realize that ethics/morality evolved, we can begin looking at how we can make them better, just like we try to improve the physical aspects of our bodies that evolved rather clumsily.

As technology makes people more impersonal, and at the same time more intertwined, we need to fall back on reason to determine our ethics. The feelings of guilt and empathy that have evolved to guide our moral decisions (which theists see as the voice of God) are not very effective in impersonal interactions. This is why we will eagerly run into a burning building to save a child, but can shrug off starving children on the other side of the world. It's also why we will say derogatory things to people online that we would never say to their face.]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:08:43 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Buffy</title><link>http://www.nmmng.co.uk/47ae4076#945</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.nmmng.co.uk/47ae4076#945</guid><dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator><content:encoded><![CDATA[Very well stated.  People who insist we need an "absolute morality" (usually meaning the Bible) to avoid utter chaos fail to understand how relative such sources of morality are.  Between the intent of the original authors, errors and intentional alterations made by translators, variations between different translations, interpretations made by the reader and so on, the Bible can hardly be considered objective.  Therefore, how can we consider it absolute?  (Don't even get me started on the content of the Bible itself!)

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