Evil

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We have to be careful about what "morality" means.

Morality can be the observed behaviour of us as a species and how we interact with each other, or it can be each individual's ideas as about what is and isn't a good idea. We need to be clear on whether we are studying a species, or whether we're talking about an individual's thoughts on morality. These are entirely different, and much of the confusion comes from conflating them I think. Importantly, many people will not adequately be able to explain their own morality, but that doesn't make it any less real or invalidate scientific explanations.

As we're all one species, we're going to have a lot of similarity and the things which have helped us survive are going to be prevalent. So we should fully expect to see a lot of overlap. But we don't have consensus. So there are objective trends to our morality I suppose you could say.

The idea of "an objective morality" though is so ridiculous I don't know where to start. If such a thing existed somehow, it would be entirely pointless, except as an arbitrary scoring method. I think people are simply stunned by the way we generally agree on certain moral principles, and think it must be magic, when there are perfectly valid scientific explanations.