Why do we need morals?

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It wasn't..however.

"because it's immoral" -OR- you could explain what makes it immoral. No shortage of ways to describe that, especially to a child. The idea of morality is descriptive, agreed. We use that descriptive concept as the basis to then prescribe behavioral goals. You won't actually be able to teach your child that "stealing is bad" without imparting morality upon them. What else should I call that, other than a teaching aide?

"Here's the target person. Heres why we're shooting for this target person. Here's how you can accomplish this goal." That, to me, I suppose, is the entirety of morality. We could have intentionally set the target, or it may have arisen as a function of our biology (and it looks like we've done both).

Back to the person I was responding to : All of the above describes why I feel that it's useful. I suspect that you make great use of it yourself, to be honest - even if you don't consider it (and that's kind of the amusing bit - it works so well that we take it for granted..lol).

So, why do you think stealing is wrong? I don't think you gave a reason, I could be wrong though.