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Originally Posted by TGS
FlorenceArt thinks that there is a very small impact of biology on ethics and that by far the greater influence is socialization. Tom thinks that the impact of biology is greater than FlorenceArt grants - though he grants that socialization is significant.
Lets assume there is a fact of the matter, the philosophically interesting question is how would we determine whether FlorenceArt or Tom is right. if either of them are, or if neither of them is, how we would determine that.
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Maybe we could assess to what extent different societies throughout history have shared the same ethics.
Of course, ethics may be the result of something other than socialisation or biology - increased knowledge, greater prosperity, perceived threat levels etc.