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Originally Posted by DasButch
Animals eat animals. We are animals. Nuff said. If anyone wants to make the choice not to, good for them. Don't tell those of us that do that we are wrong. It IS evolution and the food chain. Human+no advantage+big predator= human lunch. Something that honestly could, and finds humans to be tasty would not think twice.
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This seems to be a popular recurring argument, despite the fact that I countered it in my first post. None of the posts seem to address the point I made. Just because we evolved a tendency towards something does not make it morally right.
It is at least plausible that humans evolved an instinctual xenophobia. There is no need to go into the actual evidence for or against this trait as my point comes in the form of a hypothetical:
if xenophobia was a natural, evolved trait of humans,
then would that morally justify racism?