Is Evolution Amoral?

[blobru]

The opposite of pain is felicity, not survival. Anyways, your teleological thinking leading you to an utilitarian ethics is highly suspicious to me. Regarding myself as a humanist, no purely utilitarian ethics is at all acceptable, in my eyes.

Herzblut

Because its calculus can't factor in the value of the individual?

 

[blobru]

Gravity is benevolent cause it pulls things together.

Oh but it's also pretty mean with black holes

While evolution just goes with the flow baby, yeahhh...

 

[Herzblut]

Because its calculus can't factor in the value of the individual?

It doesn't factor any value. It's not virtue but result based.

Herzblut

 

[cyborg]

Only those who produce results have virtue in evolution.

 

[arthwollipot]

If by "results" you mean "offspring", I agree.