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There's not such thing as a society without a moral against killing, so we're far in the reaches of conjecture and theoretical here. I didn't mean "Advanced" i
by Talanes 5y ago
There's not such thing as a society without a moral against killing, so we're far in the reaches of conjecture and theoretical here.
I didn't mean "Advanced" in any sort of value judgement way, but just in terms of complexity. "Never kill people" is a much simpler axiom than "never kill people, except for in these specific circumstances where it's good to kill people instead."
- rramadass 5y agoThere is a very big difference between Morals which arise directly from a sense of self-preservation vs. those which are needed to build a stable/cooperative/just society. Eg: Thou shalt not Kill vs. Thou shalt have only one wife. They are two very different things. I am talking about the latter which is context-specific and malleable. The former i don't consider as a "Moral" but as a direct corollary of the instinct for self-preservation.
- Talanes 5y agoI'd honestly swap your examples around. "Thou shalt not Kill" provides for stability that enables for long-term societies to develop. "Thou shalt have only one wife" just sounds like a rule made up by someone who wouldn't have a wife if Jerry next door was allowed to have two.