Morality from the ground up

[Angrboda]

@Jorg

Obviously a full appraisal of the entirety of the moral field (and particularly it;s origins and how we accomplish whatever moral calculations we intuitively make at the process level) will contain many things..but I have to ask, why do you think that we, a predatory animal, would have a stronger natural inclination against killing animals that suffer?  I can't imagine that, over the years, those who had a much -more- well developed sense of guilt over the deaths of animals would have been all that successful - particularly in comparison to the rest of us.  Personally, I find -any- natural inclination against killing animals that suffer...which we possess in spades, a bit of an outlier.

There aren't many remorseful mouths in the world.

It's less than obvious that we wouldn't have a natural inclination against harming animals if harm is the only basis of our morality.