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Added 2021-10-23 21:24:43 +0000 UTCMy OP tits and memories from when my snap game was ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ On the evolution of morality Yesterday, a friend made the claim that there is no such thing as morality and that good & bad are simply human social constructions. Moral relativism instinctively puts a bad taste in my mouth as it is a lazy explanation that doesnโt say anything new about what it purports to explain. Even if I knew it was incorrect, I had a difficult time refuting it. Then I thought about morality in terms of the behavior of primates. Our non human ancestors (primates) have a system of morality if we think of it as a code of conduct. They can understand the concept of โfairnessโ hence being ripped off will cause them to be angry. Maybe morality can be reduced to what is evolutionarily advantageous, and as animals develop in intellect, they gain greater capacity to understand morality. I say this because species that are less evolved such as certain breeds of birds will often not act in their best interest (such as by killing their offspring which is maladaptive.) Unfortunately it is difficult to prove morality isnโt a social construct conjured by humans as a method of behavioral regulation and that there is indeed โobjectiveโ concepts of morality that exist in the world. As previously stated, I believe that a speciesโ understanding of morality increases alongside the progress of their evolution โ perhaps they coevolved (the development of certain brain functions). I recently read a book that talks about just this titled Primates and Philosophy: How Morality Evolved where Frans de Waal demonstrate precursors to what we would consider โmoralityโ. In Primates and Philosophers, Frans De Waal attempts to analyze the origins of human morality through what we would perceive as moral behavior in our non-human ancestors, chimpanzees and other primates. Evolution is selfish, it causes individuals to take whatever actions that is conducive to their survival and reproduction.
