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Morality is set around cultural norms not animal behavior.

• lisper 3y ago
  But cultural norms -- indeed, culture itself -- is grounded in evolution. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
  • afwef 3y ago
    Only partly, there is still a large degree of arbitrariness based on the social environment within the biologically constrained bounds
    • lisper 3y ago
      Sure, all behavior exhibits variation within evolutionary constraints. But it is still not the case that "all of our ethical theories are based on arbitrary axioms". That is no more true than that the weather is "based on arbitrary axioms".
  • nmz 3y ago
    Culture has social conventions that are not based at all around survival of the fittest, fashion and language for one are different between cultures. I do not see how they maximize survival, if anything they create needless competition.
    • lisper 3y ago
      You don't understand how evolution works. You need to read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.