It can't be wrong if it feels so right

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:


"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."

—Mark Twain, What Is Man?




For a slightly different take on this, here's a fascinating article from the New York Times from 2006 on "An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong."














Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Comments

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

Ha! That looks like a new take on bathroom signs.

[pjthompson]

Boys being little devils and girls little angels, right?

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

riiiiiiiight

[handworn.livejournal.com]

And Twain is usually so good.

[pjthompson]

I don't think any of us escape the age in which we are born.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Far be it from me to disagree in general. I wouldn't blame him at all, in fact, except that he so often did see beyond what everyone around him was saying. But everyone's human, as you say.