Why do we need morals?

[Darkstar]

See, I wouldn't go so far as to say "utter chaos". I think that most people would do exactly what they already do (or don't). Now some of that is probably conditioning, don't get me wrong, but I'm willing to accept that most folks just don't "do wrong".

Well, okay. I would agree with you in that respect. I don't mean that any morals need to be laid out as a code (i.e. if there were no laws most people would not suddenly become mass murderers).

Even without an established set of agreed upon morals, people would still be distinguishing right from wrong, and in that sense would still have morals of a sort. I suppose you could argue that even if, for example, stealing were not seen as immoral, people still wouldn't want to steal, but I'm not sure how far that would go. Still though, I guess amoral people wouldn't necessarily automatically devolve into serial killers or anything.