"I Can't Breathe"

BedellBrave said:
A little of both I suppose. I think I could ask why you think giving in to our survival instinct is correct? But that's sort of like the second question, why is life valuable?
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Didn't say it was correct or a matter of giving in. It's just a remnant of when every action was instinctive, without what we would now consider thought. The survival instinct is almost universal among animals. It's not something just for us. Even a single-celled bacteria will try to evolve to survive a hostile environment if one is introduced.
 
"I can't breathe."

Our survival instinct is why that makes most of us sick to hear. We fear for our own lives and the lives of those we have bonded with. We want to do something to fix it so it can't happen to us. And that's a reaction from the deepest part of our brain. How it manifests in words and actions (and even thoughts) can have a lot to do with our environment.
 
BedellBrave said:
We could also go further and say that sometimes harming another does enable us to survive.
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Yep. And that's one of the reasons it happens all the time. We even allow for it in our laws (self-defense) because it is natural in all of us (outside of some with problems in/with their brain).
 
Dalyn said:
Didn't say it was correct or a matter of giving in. It's just a remnant of when every action was instinctive, without what we would now consider thought. The survival instinct is almost universal among animals. It's not something just for us. Even a single-celled bacteria will try to evolve to survive a hostile environment if one is introduced.
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But we go further - we make an "is" into an "ought" Description becomes prescription and prescription is religious. Maybe that's what you were saying and you are arguing your description from a Naturalistic worldview. Have I got that right?
 
BedellBrave said:
But we go further - we make an "is" into an "ought" Description becomes prescription and prescription is religious. Maybe that's what you were saying and you are arguing your description from a Naturalistic worldview. Have I got that right?
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Close enough. Naturalistic in a methodological sense more than metaphysical.
 
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