Humans are social animals, like wolves and bees and ants...
Given that we need to live together, we have developed some rules that make it better, on the whole; or better for the majority.
Such rules as "do not kill another human being" are for the betterment of the group.... but this tends to be forgotten on human beings of other groups.
Today, with all this interconnected world, some people find it easy to realize that we're just one large group... some people still have a hard time grasping this concept. Genetically, we've evolved in relatively small groups, each trying to survive, even if that meant annihilating a neighboring group.
And then people came up with this morality concept.
Morality as the set of rules which tell right from wrong.
What is right? Whatever makes the group better.
What is wrong? Whatever makes the group worse.
Apply this to the group of "humans on the face of the Earth" and you should arrive at some general notion of morality for the whole of humankind.
Can one individual uphold a set of rules which hold for the whole of humanity?
Given that we need to live together, we have developed some rules that make it better, on the whole; or better for the majority.
Such rules as "do not kill another human being" are for the betterment of the group.... but this tends to be forgotten on human beings of other groups.
Today, with all this interconnected world, some people find it easy to realize that we're just one large group... some people still have a hard time grasping this concept. Genetically, we've evolved in relatively small groups, each trying to survive, even if that meant annihilating a neighboring group.
And then people came up with this morality concept.
Morality as the set of rules which tell right from wrong.
What is right? Whatever makes the group better.
What is wrong? Whatever makes the group worse.
Apply this to the group of "humans on the face of the Earth" and you should arrive at some general notion of morality for the whole of humankind.
Can one individual uphold a set of rules which hold for the whole of humanity?
