RE: What is the source for our morals?
December 10, 2015 at 11:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2015 at 11:44 pm by Mudhammam.)
(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?Well, if everyone had a different opinion on what they think is moral - and I don't think that's actually apparent, especially insofar as virtually every culture to some degree finds agreement on a range of moral axioms, such as the Golden Rule - that obviously wouldn't disprove the possibility that morality is objective. The very fact that, as you say, morality may be a natural byproduct of higher intelligence, would suggest to me that it is above mere personal preference; that is, there is something intrinsic within certain states of being that even rudimentary forms of reason can recognize as good qua good.
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