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Originally Posted by photon
I don't think it has to have any affect... someone may use that view to try and justify a moral position, but the biological realty does not dictate that moral position; the natural state of things is neutral, it's how we choose to use that information that is the moral decision.
If the view that all life at the most basic level exists simply to reproduce did impose moral views or impose a specific way of viewing the value of human life, those that held that view of life would have different morals.. when they don't.
What rest of human understandings are you talking about? You're going around some point that I'm not getting.
How does the validity of chemistry affect our moral understanding of certain issues, such as euthanasia?
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Well, for example, the use of Darwinism to explain political issues, such as genocide. I've read books and heard viewpoints that tried to explain the Holocaust as simply the result of competition for territory and access to reproductive chances. My point is, that it is never that simple.
In applying biology strictly to human life, there is a tendency to see people only as material organisms, instead of being good in themselves.