(May 27, 2015 at 2:54 pm)wallym Wrote: How do you get people not to treat each other like shit. The question posed, how to answer the question "why be good?" And they're still working on it, as far as I can tell looking around the globe.
I'd be willing to bet that morality is an emergent property of in-group/out-group dynamics, arising as it did because it help cement in-group cohesion so that a given group could compete successfully for resources. I don't know that to be the fact, but that would be my guess.