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Originally Posted by kennyc
... it is life and it's survival and on-going existence that creates what are called morals -- rules of behavior which provide for the means of continuation of the species.
I think to define morals outside that environment is to introduce artificiality.
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Why 'continuation of the species' specifically?
Why not continuation of a gene, or a particular culture, or mammals, vertebrates, the planet?
A lot of moral guidance has seemed to set human against human - to the point when we've even been prepared to destroy ourselves to assert our moral superiority.