Friday, July 09, 2010

Dawkins Sees The Problem With His Bottom(*)

"If somebody used my views to justify a completely self - centred lifestyle, which involved trampling all over other people in any way they chose roughly what, I suppose, at a sociological level social Darwinists did - I think I would be fairly hard put to it to argue on purely intellectual grounds.

I think it would be more: "This is not a society in which I wish to live. Without having a rational reason for it necessarily, I'm going to do whatever I can to stop you doing this."

(*)
"... there is, at bottom, no evil and no good."

In other words, as Peter S. Williams puts it, "his metaethical views evacuate (no pun intended) his capacity for moral argument".

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"... nothing intellectually compelling or challenging.. bald assertions coupled to superstition... woefully pathetic"