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Originally Posted by Augi
Yes, dogma, that is what I meant.
Good and evil are human concepts we use to describe behavior conductive or antagonistic to society. Without certain morals and social laws, society could not function efficiently. In a sense, the scientific method could be used to gage good and evil demonstrating that without such X then Y of P you could not acheive Z, but as far as I see it, they are human concepts.
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Good and evil aren't just human concepts, they are human problems. I'm not sure we could pin the concepts of good and evil to any other animals within the kingdom, but that doesn't make them any less real to us.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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