(December 5, 2017 at 7:32 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:Quote:No it cannot. You have been misinformed. There are valid criticisms of the PSR but that's not one of them.Yes it is . PSR can apply to fairies . Theists just special plead.
Morality is a human invention . But it none the less remains true and objective.
No, our morality certainly is natural, not handed down by something super natural, but hardly objective. On a planet of 7 billion we are still tribal and have a tendency to defend that which is local and are familiar with. The morality is our social grouping, that "morality" however can be based on very false or bad ideas.
Unfortunately evolution does not care if cooperation or cruelty work. We can and do often, as a species cooperate to fight other groups, and we can see that as good for our group, but the other group will see it as negative.
But, our evolutionary empathy is the morality that can be described in natural terms. It is why the elephant and cat in the videos I posted before did what they did. They see their own, or that they have been accustom to as a resource, and the cooperation creates greater potential for survival.
Our human word we call "morality" is claimed by every religion, and that says to me the religious motifs are superfluous, so in that context it is a human construct as an abstract. But it is not an abstract in evolutionary terms. Other life does the same thing. Other life groups to survive too. Other life protects other group members too. In that context morality is real. But regardless, since all life competes, what can be seen as good by one can be seen as negative by another.
