(June 10, 2012 at 11:02 am)MysticKnight Wrote:(June 10, 2012 at 10:59 am)Chuck Wrote: For you means You form the opinion that it is wrong.
OK, can you elaborate on what you stated earlier?
Yes. Morality is an emergent property of interplay between perception, evolutionary conditioning and social expedience. One perceive certain modes of behavior as obnormally right, and thus perhaps absolutely moral, because it fits in some complex way with certain notion ingrained by evolution as an expedient course to promote a certain type of survival enhancing social perception, such as fairness, reciprocity, etc. A complex survival enhancing social behavior is only survival enhancing in the context of biology and particular genetically driven sociology of the animal. Take for example an predatory animal with social structure similar to lions. Here male probably enjoy no benefit from reciprocity to other males and would not not have it ingrained as a basic determinate of rightness of behavior. In its context it would probably be natural that a new male invading a herem to attempt to assert his genetic dominance by killing the children of his predecessors, possibly buy using them in some lethal sport. So in this case torture of children would not necessarily have perceived as immoral.
