Sand wrote:
The problem with any of these necessary and instinctive drives is knowing what their proper limits should be. There are other instinctive drives in herd animals (such as cows, ants, humans, duck, etc.) which limit individual self preservation drives in favor of the benefits of group existence. Some poor demented members of the herd never comprehend to accept these necessary limitations.
One man's "necessity" is another man's tyranny.
Since one cannot derive the principles of morality from physical law, it is clear that morality is opinion and social convention.
ruveyn
Herd animals do not behave the way they do for random reasons. There are survival reasons behind them and they are effective.
