ethics and d.n.a

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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jackles
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ethics and d.n.a

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are ethics evolved. is there at the heart of ethics some selfish d.n.a molicual.or is there something deeper in d.n.a.something at the quantum level of things. The evolving of life forms through all the stages of presented forms from a molecular compound of elements to man.did ethics pre exist d.n.a only to be expressed by d.n.a in man.
shmik
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Ethics are not some kind of platonic ideal existing in reality. Ethics also has little to do with DNA, it is a study of the way humans should act.
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jackles wrote:are ethics evolved. is there at the heart of ethics some selfish d.n.a molicual.or is there something deeper in d.n.a.something at the quantum level of things. The evolving of life forms through all the stages of presented forms from a molecular compound of elements to man.did ethics pre exist d.n.a only to be expressed by d.n.a in man.
Yes, Richard Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene" explores this argument.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

I don't think there is a lot on quantum biology although Schrodinger did write a book on it.

Your last question would come under Deontological Ethics.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology

The study of Ethics is not usually investigated in Biology.
jackles
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A .thanks for that ill look it up.
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