re morality was re political atheists livesey solntze wpd sgi com jon livesey writes so you are saying that it isn t possible for an instinctive act to be moral one i like to think that many things are possible explain to me how instinctive acts can be moral acts and i am happy to listen for example if it were instinctive not to murder that is in order for an act to be an act of morality the person must consider the immoral action but then disregard it weaker than that there must be the possibility that the organism it s not just people we are talking about can consider alternatives so only intelligent beings can be moral even if the bahavior of other beings mimics theirs and how much emphasis do you place on intelligence animals of the same species could kill each other arbitarily but they don t are you trying to say that this isn t an act of morality because most animals aren t intelligent enough to think like we do keith
