(October 11, 2021 at 8:10 pm)ayost Wrote: You’re being way to flippant and not truly looking at the depth of the world’s depravity. Obviously, there’s the atrocities in China and North Korea. There’s genital mutilation in the Middle East. Cannibals in India. Sex trafficking in America. Slavery in Africa. There’s a tribe in Papua New Guinea where boys are required to perform oral sex on the elders until the boys are old enough ejaculate. Trust me, the world is not full of people who all agree on what’s right and what’s wrong. That’s not true in any sense.
Yes, when all voices are not heard, morality can be skewed. I would suggest that when more voices are heard, and we become more empathetic to each other, a better morality will result.
Moral systems can also be out of whack when survival is at stake. I often think that our current morality is a result of everyone having things relatively easy. In harsher situations, social systems have a far larger emphasis on survival of the group, and less on things like personal happiness. It is one of the reasons why the Old Testament morality is so utterly foreign to us. We would have to understand the culture it evolved in, and then determine if it was adaptive or mal-adaptive in that setting. We can't just transplant our moral sensibility elsewhere. Perhaps our morals are demonstrably superior, but they would have to face the test of that time and situation to know.
