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<blockquote data-quote="El Correcto" data-source="post: 4608293" data-attributes="member: 60631">Where did our morals come from? My view is that empathy is a positive trait for social animals that helped us be more unified in our approach to survival. Not only understanding cause and effect(Jerry getting punched in the face for stealing bob’s fish) but beable to empathize with bob’s action and realize Jerry is the bad person causing the conflict. This caused the group to agree that stealing fish causes conflict and that appropriate action will be taken for someone caught stealing. Establishing not only a moral code of no fish stealing but codifying it into tribal law, you will get punched in the face and humiliated for stealing fish. Ditto this for all other things we view as immoral, they cause conflict in our groups and social cohesion is important for our survival. The homo sapiens that failed to have a strong social cohesion were at a higher disadvantage than the ones that did. It was bred into us over time by the strong groups that maintained their bonds and survived together.That’s just how I view it. I don’t believe in some great creator handing humans a moral code. If you want to have the moral code of B.C sand people, be my guest and hall your ass to Saudi Arabia. They still live under Abrahamic traditions and laws. Homos are bad, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Correcto, post: 4608293, member: 60631"] Where did our morals come from? My view is that empathy is a positive trait for social animals that helped us be more unified in our approach to survival. Not only understanding cause and effect(Jerry getting punched in the face for stealing bob’s fish) but beable to empathize with bob’s action and realize Jerry is the bad person causing the conflict. This caused the group to agree that stealing fish causes conflict and that appropriate action will be taken for someone caught stealing. Establishing not only a moral code of no fish stealing but codifying it into tribal law, you will get punched in the face and humiliated for stealing fish. Ditto this for all other things we view as immoral, they cause conflict in our groups and social cohesion is important for our survival. The homo sapiens that failed to have a strong social cohesion were at a higher disadvantage than the ones that did. It was bred into us over time by the strong groups that maintained their bonds and survived together. That’s just how I view it. I don’t believe in some great creator handing humans a moral code. If you want to have the moral code of B.C sand people, be my guest and hall your ass to Saudi Arabia. They still live under Abrahamic traditions and laws. Homos are bad, etc. [/QUOTE]

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