Quote:Certainly people have their own built in morality; empathy. But it's different for each person, it won't be the same for every person. It is arbitrary.
The Golden Rule (Empathy) was discovered by many very different and disconnected cultures. See here for a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
If morality was simply arbitrary, then there is no way that such a specific law of reciprocity would, by pure chance, emerge from so many disparate sources so this points to a shared morality, not an arbitrary one. As animals, all humans share basic needs in common. If you're not familiar with this idea you can see maslow's hierachy of needs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_h...y_of_needs
The lower rung represents common needs that every human requires in order to survive. These are not arbitrary or even subjective needs and it appears that various human cultures attempt to meet these non arbitrary and non subjective needs through the use of moral systems making them non arbitrary and tied to the human condition. In this sense, morality evolved as a survival mechanism for the group and evolution is not an arbitrary process. It's a process of selection.
Now, I'm not in any way saying that that all our cultures share the exact same moral codes, just that there appears to be an objective and non arbitrary base from which we begin.
If god was real he wouldn't need middle men to explain his wants or do his bidding.
