(April 26, 2017 at 5:20 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Obviously, morality is rooted in the social emotions of our apelike animal nature: we love children, so treating children badly is immoral. We don't like losing resources, so we call stealing of resources immoral.
Grounding morality in evolutionary imperatives would be an example of the genetic fallacy. Being good back in the day doesn't make it good today.
Culture is a collection of evolved behaviors of a social group. Morality is cultural. Roddenberry's ideals have not been achieved. We're still stuck in otherness. That may be the demise of our species.
