(May 28, 2018 at 11:04 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Too weird. Can you really draw any reasonable conclusions about our actual situation by considering such a strange hypothetical? Hint: no.
Yes, you can. It's a similitude. We prefer our tribe/country/group over others not due to Iblis and his dark forces like I believe, but rather, it would be due to natural instinct to survive.
Likewise, there would be nothing immoral of preferring our tribe/country/group/religion leaders if evolution favored us believing in Shamans who told us stories and favored us being gullible for unity, meaning, and cohesion.
In other words morality becomes paradoxical just like Lion's with empathy, morality becomes paradoxical in that our clinging to it over time was also the source of conflicts.
Yes, there is a morality that can be described that doesn't favor wars between tribes/countries/religions, but it's not the realistic one we inherited.
This would be the perspective of humans and morality in a scenario where we aren't created in image of God but forces of evolution that made us prefer following Shamans/con men who lead us to survival but also division and wars.
