"... with limited capacity to adjust our behavior on the basis of reasoned morality."
We also have hard-wired general memory and reasoning faculties.
"We are not animals."
We are not base animals, to be sure. Neither are we angels of pure logic.
We also have hard-wired general memory and reasoning faculties.
"We are not animals."
We are not base animals, to be sure. Neither are we angels of pure logic.
To illustrate with an extreme: If we happened to be hard-wired by evolution to be tremendously predisposed towards genocidal behavior, would that make any acts of genocide we commit morally acceptable behavior?
Three Worlds Collide, by Yudkowsky
http://lesswrong.com/lw/y5/the_babyeating_aliens_18/
"The most controversial story I’ve ever written. Starts with the baby-eating aliens and moves on from there."