(November 10, 2015 at 7:57 am)Mechaghostman2 Wrote: Obviously objective morality doesn't exist considering everyone has a different opinion on what they think is moral. However, considering most of us don't go around killing and raping people, I'd have to say there is a dominant thought process we all share that could be considered universal morality. Chimpanzees and other higher mammals also exhibit this morality, albeit on a smaller scale. So did we evolve our basic morals as some kind of preservation of our species? Or is it completely learned behavior; rules created by tyrants that become memes? Or perhaps both? Is there a part of our brain that we have found to contain morality?
I think that our morals are derived just from simple self preservation. We know that its more favorable to our survival if we work together, as opposed to every man for himself. We developed empathy to help with this, and those who lack it happen to be the said murderers and rapists. So the real question is why to we empathize really because without empathy what would morals be...
