(May 26, 2015 at 3:36 pm)Heywood Wrote: Egalitarianism is a recent modern phenomena. It is not something we evolved. It is an assumption that certain human societies accept and other human societies reject. If it is but a choice and not a universal truth, then there is nothing wrong with a society deciding gays are lessor human beings or women shouldn't vote.
You really have no fucking idea what you are talking about do you?
Here are some links on the subject. It's perfectly reasonable to take a specific position, but at least make an attempt to understand the basics that have been hashed out for millennia.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/