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Originally Posted by My Paper Heart
While I understand the concept of a moral compass, the uber literal-ness in me hates the term because it makes no sense in my mind. What I'm finding, though, is the concept that EVERYTHING exists on a spectrum of one thing or another. So yes, I agree that in order to define what is 'good' you must also define what is 'bad' (as much as it sucks). But I'll say again, as I have in other posts, things aren't simply black/white, right/wrong, or good/bad; the world is full of grey, hence my insistence of good vs. bad on a spectrum.
And you're not alone in feeling stupid with amidst some of these posts. I'm still putting my two cents in even though a fair bit of the science and math is over my head.... That's why most of my posts are more based on history and psych therapy.
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I sort of bowed out of this thread as I thought, with good reason, that I was becoming aggressive, argumentative and, really, went on a personal attack mode: not pretty.
And I’m simply too stupid to argue quantum-stuff newer than the early 1990’s, I suppose. I learned what little I know from post-grad physicists at Kings (Isaac Newton’s hang-out) and I sent some of the text here to my physicist friends but with a new term beginning, I felt as if I was bothering them.
I believe that you’re right — further evidence that this is not a binary Universe. Certainly, I believe that some behaviors are
evil, but there are degrees of evil and degrees of good.
You’re right — I can only respond
historically via the manner that I learned (largely argumentative!) to respond. We, all of us, can only
plan future behaviors and that planning is based upon what we’ve — hopefully — learned from our past and our behaviors in the present.
(Call me Mr. Guilty, Mr. Guilty is my name.)
Because I don’t — I can’t — grasp an either/or ‘moral compass,’ I think that failure to grasp destroys any idea of a binary Universe and reeks havoc with any notion of of predictable ‘patterns.’ Like evolution, we can only say that there is a pattern that we’re desperate to find; it sounds as if we’ve found an intelligence that designed this Universe — which, to me, is rubbish.
I keep repeating the tale of the millions of gall wasps collected by Alfred Kinsey and the hundreds of thousands that he actually researched: Kinsey found that there were such
differences amongst the gall wasps from wing shape and span, etc., while positing that each individual would be the same.
Every person who has lived, who lives currently, and who will be born in the future is a singular mutation, for better or worse. We pass along portions of our mutations to our progeny. We, each individual born, is an evolutionary mutant and bright as we are we
cannot predict the nature of our mutation/evolution, but only observe it (when it comes) after the fact.
Yes, my 2-cents.