Reply #82: This is what I think... [View All]

[grantdwilliams]

To use your terminology, yes, I think immorality is humanity's natural state. But I consider immorality to be the negation of objective value, and morality fundamentally the creation of objective value.

Since an individual requires certain things to continue to live, he or she must take certain actions. Since an individual's body is a very fundamental value, to lay down and die is necessarily immoral.

I believe that life is the standard of all value.

What is in support of human life, is of value, and what is not, is a disvalue or a non-value. The pursuit of a non-value (for example, a rain dance) is a disvalue.

The incentive to live is a chosen one. It is chosen by each and every individual each and every day. How often or to what degree it is a fully concious choice is another issue.

Also, I do not differentiate between natural and unnatural acts. Humanity is not some ethereal species places in a hostile reality.
New York City is as natural as a beaver's dam. The beaver is acting in it's nature, and man is acting in his.

The incentive to act moral is the desire to live.