<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:citta437@aol.com">citta437@aol.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:citta437@aol.com">citta437@aol.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Me: In the contrary morality is not supported by reason/rationality. It<br>arise from fear of the unknown-what may happen if the code or rules of
<br>conduct is broken. Fear of punishment/suffering or hope for a reward as<br>a reason to live well according to rules. Fear obstructs<br>reason/rationality to see reality as it is. Seeing the nature of<br>reality without evidence or proof but merely based on metaphysical
<br>beliefs is imagination/fantasy.</blockquote>
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<div>Moral behavior is the realization that existence is preferable over non existence and that the larger the group one belongs to the better one's own existence can be ensured. I replied to an earlier mail of yours with a link to a paper arguing this in more depths. If I had seen your statement here earlier I would have replied to you here with teh link...
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