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Re: What is Morality?
From my understanding of biological evolution, nothing ever evolves for the benefit of the group. Some aspects of morality may have evolved to facilitate reciprocal exchange, etc., but I think that those aspects evolved because of the benefit to the individual, to relatives, or more fundamentally, to the gene/gene complex which coded for that morality. (but maybe you weren't talking about biological evolution).
Personally, I don't think that secular ethics are any different from religious ethics. I think that religious ethics are an expression of our evolved morality (interacting with environmental context).
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