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Parking-Mud-1848 t1_isn9ify wrote

Reply to comment by get_it_together1 in Philip Kitcher argues that morality is a social technology designed to solve problems emerging from the fragility of human altruism. Morality can be evaluated objectively, but without assuming moral truths. The view makes sense against a Darwinian view of life, but it is not social Darwinism. by Ma3Ke4Li3

History is not spurred by power but by the demands of people. People in power do not move until they are moved

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”

-Abe Lincoln

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