Technologically man is a giant, but morally man is a pygmy?

Answer 1

Yes, man is selfish. He will seek after his own interests, even to the exclusion of others, even those he loves. Even worse, he is incapable of changing himself.

This is a foundational premise of Christianity (look up "total depravity") And I would say that it is supported by all of history. Even rules we all agree are valid (don't lie) we break ourselves. Often we even tend to justify breaking them.

But, Christianity is about God coming to man's rescue. Man can be changed, but not through technology, or by any other means he possesses.

Answer 2

If we were morally pygmies then there might want to be no functioning societies in any respect, the majority people are respectable and hardship-free people. and obviously you've not began to do not forget that maximum of our present day technologies is run via seat of the pants software which even its creators do not recognize how or why it particularly works.

Answer 3

Man is as much a giant morally as technologically; just because we don't always follow our morality doesn't mean we don't know right from wrong.

Answer 4

man is a ball of pride, he cannot think of anything else but how to go through all lengths to achieve things that are no use after a few days/years down the road. many technological things that man has created in the past few decades has become obsolete... technologically man has advanced at an alarming pace, so much so that there are incidents of holidaying in the moon, and jaunting off to different planets.
he has invented great forces and instruments f destruction, yet for all that, crime has gone up to a high degree. there is no respect for life, neither of their own species, nor of other species. many innocent organisms and creatures have become victims of man's insensible cruelty. for one's own ends, man has killed millions.
thousands of creatures killed results in a mink coat-come on man, why deprive an animal that 24*7*12*365 days wears its coat to gratify some vacuous woman who will just put it on for 4-5 days a year???

Answer 5

HEY! Pygmies are people too and should not be generalized into a category used for the sole purpose of an example of height.

Sheesh... where's your morality? You're like, so mean!


*giggles...

Answer 6

Not by nature, but by demonstration.

(It's also not that simple, you have to account for how power structures, intellectual, political, religious filter down into the common man's culture. If these structures are morally diminutive, then the culture just requires we mimic.) Man isn't as guilty as his external authorities make him out to be, but he accepts THEIR karma as his own.

Answer 7

Fear is the dictating factor when exposing all of humanitys frailties and weakness'. And secondly morality and ethics are learned, they are not integral to the human genome. Remember that not that long ago we were killing mastodons w/sticks and stones. This is the explanation for the ongoing horrific examples of violence that we witness everyday. We are hard wired for survival born of "fear".

Answer 8

Which man are you referring to as I know men who are highly moral but cannot even programme their VCR!! You cannot label everyone with such a generalisation.

Answer 9

I got Aristotle...

www.ars-rhetorica.net/Queen/VolumeSpecialIssue5/Articles/Steeves.pdf

Answer 10

depends on the man/ woman