http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/ One Mormon boy’s iconoclastic quest to remix and rectify his notions of truth, mind, myth, love, life, and transcendence. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/#comment-6158 Lincoln Cannon Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:33:55 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/#comment-6158 Yes. I think their moral laws would be as different from ours as our anatomies and environments are different from theirs. To suggest a Mormon perspective on this, Joseph taught that God commands according to circumstance; what is right in one circumstance may be wrong in another. Yes. I think their moral laws would be as different from ours as our anatomies and environments are different from theirs. To suggest a Mormon perspective on this, Joseph taught that God commands according to circumstance; what is right in one circumstance may be wrong in another.

]]> http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/#comment-6156 Jonathan Blake Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:15:39 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/#comment-6156 I agree. I believe our moral laws derive from the physical laws which govern our mind/brain. Would you agree that other sentient life would have other moral laws then? I agree. I believe our moral laws derive from the physical laws which govern our mind/brain. Would you agree that other sentient life would have other moral laws then?

]]> http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/#comment-6154 Lincoln Cannon Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:14:11 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2008/01/18/rationalizing-incest/#comment-6154 Moral law is to communities as will is to individuals, desire is to their anatomies, and physical law is to their environments. I think moral laws actually will look something like physical laws, as we begin to become better acquainted with them through increasingly sophisticated tools. The difference will be that moral laws emerge from systems that are FAR more complex than the systems in which we've already identified physical laws. It is not our rational intelligence, but rather our emotional intelligence that continues to make us superior to our computers -- although that will change. Moral law is to communities as will is to individuals, desire is to their anatomies, and physical law is to their environments. I think moral laws actually will look something like physical laws, as we begin to become better acquainted with them through increasingly sophisticated tools. The difference will be that moral laws emerge from systems that are FAR more complex than the systems in which we’ve already identified physical laws. It is not our rational intelligence, but rather our emotional intelligence that continues to make us superior to our computers — although that will change.

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