RE: Some questions for you
January 22, 2017 at 8:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2017 at 8:06 pm by Jesster.)
(January 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Joz Wrote: 1. What is morality? Do good and evil exist?
Morality is a social concept. A group of people with a shared sense of good morality can better thrive together. Good and evil aren't actual things, but people often use those labels to describe things.
(January 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Joz Wrote: 2. Presuming that we are highly evolved biological machines whose main motivation is to survive and adapt, why, in societies in general, is there such a collective fixation with love? By this I mean the romantic love expressed in movies, pop music etc. In many movies there seems to be one story, that is, there is a hero, things go bad, the hero finds love, the hero fights for love, the bad is defeated, the hero wins the love. Why is this story so deeply ingrained in our collective subconsciousness?
You'd get a better response from a biologist, and I am not one, but there are chemical releases in the body that can be triggered to affect our emotions. It's very useful for leading us to reproduction, which is why it has become so prominent. We talk and write about it to exploit this mechanic for other purposes because it feels good.
Not romantic, I know, but the truth doesn't have to be.
(January 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Joz Wrote: 3. Why does justice matter to each of us? If someone harms us or someone we love, we want them to pay the consequences. But why should there be consequences for our actions? That would imply judgement and an judge. What if the person that harmed us was merely executing their right to survival of the fittest?
See my response on morality. It's not always about the individual. Morality matters to the prosperity of groups of people. While the individual still matters in this group, a good shared moral system that includes things like justice is utilizing methods to balance the two.
