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re: Do You Believe in Absolute Morality?
Posted on 11/13/18 at 8:56 am to DoctorO
Posted on 11/13/18 at 8:56 am to DoctorO
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Self preservation of the species.
So what you're saying implies, at some point, people decided morality was necessary for survival, that the knowledge of right and wrong is not something people are born with?
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Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:01 am to Perfect Circle
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that the knowledge of right and wrong is not something people are born with?
I believe it "evolved" along with our self awareness as a mechanism for mutually assured survival.
Lots of children who know no better and are raised in horrible homes are "good" people without any formative training in morality. "Nurture" can outweigh "nature" in many regards due to the malleability of the brain in our formative years, but by and large, people know that injuring another person for selfish reasons is bad. Stealing from another is bad. Logic tells us this. Logic is a natural occurrence. Our self awareness allows us to expand on logic & define it as morality, but it is essentially a logical conclusion for the survival of a social species with the added evolutionary tool of self awareness such as humans.
This post was edited on 11/13/18 at 9:26 am
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