It’s certainly true that both genes and our culture, rather than just one or the other, provide an explanation. But it’s not one or the other, but one and the o

It’s certainly true that both genes and our culture, rather than just one or the other, provide an explanation. But it’s not one or the other, but one and the other. This genetic and cultural evolution working together has shaped our brains to care for others, react to those who try to harm us, and to create moral rules that help us to live together successfully. I’m not sure why responding to socialization pressures to conform to certain behaviors would preclude intrinsic or genetic morality. We know that babies exhibit intrinsic morality from a very young age, that moral behavior exists in non-human species, and that we have parts of the brain just to deal with moral judgement (though we are really in the infancy of understanding and mapping this from what I’ve read). That’s not what I meant to imply or what research supports.