Morality

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Our morals are based on self, here and now. They vary between people. If I polled a question, any question like abortion there will be different opinions. Which one is right? How do we know it's right? Right for who? Each person's opinion is made on their preferences. Cave man's preferences are based on instincts, on self preservation. I don't see much about morals in a societal context, always of self.

This is not entirely true. A variety of studies have shown that there seems to be considerable overlap in moral responses and views across cultures. That people tend to respond similarly to a variety of moral situations.

That we posses a universal core morality, as can be observed in the commonality of moral views among religions, philosophies etc..

In reality there’s perhaps more we agree on morally that disagree, just that our disagreements are the one often highlighted.

This is similar to truth in way, we hold lots of things in common that we hold true, and there are some thing different cultures and societies, often hold uniquely true, as opposed to others.

So although a person without religion can be a good person, a society needs to operate on one unified moral system which is built not for us, here and now but for future generations. Humans are very narcissistic. They believe they can control the weather, create a new universe and are all knowing.

Society operates with a belief in moral realism, that’s there’s an objective moral reality, that wrongness of something exist independently of oneself, like the color of my wife’s dress does. Most people don’t believe that something is wrong because of a subjective consensus of their particular society

This may be an illusion, or a false belief, but human being predominantly operate as if this is true, our moral language and beliefs are saturated with this foundational assumption. Such as in the idea of moral progress, moral obligations and duties, listening to ones conscious, etc...