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Why do some people still claim morality is totally cultural and a human construct when animals display obvious morals everyday? why can we not accept we have naturally developed these?
Before you state 'religion, understand these faiths were an extension and greater justification of these innate morals in order to maintain order.
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>>2800206
>when animals display obvious morals everyday
?
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>humanities
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>>2800212
Protection of their children, sacrifice for the pack. Suicide to defend others. Attempting to save their fellow members of their species. (i.e. elephants waiting and staying with their children as they die)
You can claim these instincts exist as they've evolved into them as they help the species as a whole, but can we not say the same about our own morals? our's are almost entirely collective > individual
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say there is such a thing as you describe and it is felt intrinsically by men as well as other animals.
what shall we call the phenomena which arise from it in a societal context?
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>>2800206
Animals display genetic imperatives. Morality implies choice, of which animals have none.
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>>2800231
They're not morals
They're behaviors
Morals are beliefs
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