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> We constructed a society That's just nature. Unless you'd argue that bonobos have "defined a moral system" because they have "constructed a society" that is
by hnbad 3y ago
> We constructed a society
That's just nature. Unless you'd argue that bonobos have "defined a moral system" because they have "constructed a society" that is built on mutual cooperation, all humans have done is find increasingly abstract ways to cause harm to one another in order to work around the natural tendency towards cooperation.
What makes human morality special is not how we support each other but how we hurt each other. And this is a fairly recent achievement even in our own species' historical timescale.
- navane 3y agoI'm assuming you don't have any free will and it's the combination of your genes and experiences that made you get to this position.
- hnbad 3y agoIs there a point to your statement? The existence or non-existence of free will has no discernable effect on reality (see the "philosophical zombies" thought experiment).