Morality in Nature

[Dunno]

Even if the only basis of morality in nature was from survival of the fittest and "might makes right" - which is most emphatically not the case...

If that were so then you would see individual members of various species acting in ways that go contrary to their animal nature. That is never the case. Animals always act according to their animal instinct. For that matter, many humans seem incapable of transcending their own animal instincts. Only Man has the intellect capable of discerning moral principles and formulating codes of behaviour - be it the "golden rule", categorical imperatives, or simple taboos.

- it'd still be a kind of morality.

Not in any meaningful sense related to choice and responsibility.

I always see humans acting according to their animal instinct too. There is no transcending your animal instinct, you're a human, deal with it, you're taken care of by the Earth and sustained by it, why do you want to transcend it, don't you like the Earth? The Earth... is there. I think it's beautiful.

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[quote='genkaus' pid='510584' dateline='1379992457']Even if the only If that were so then you would see individual members of various species acting in ways that go contrary to their animal nature. That is never the case.

I dunno, Chad. Have a look at this lion taking care of a baby antelope. If that doesn't go against the nature of a lion I don't what does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZw-1BfHFKM

We raise pigs and then we kill them for food. Perhaps this is the first step towards lions learning how to domesticate animals. Intriguing.