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Originally Posted by zen_tom
morality (small m) can be best described as a set of behaviours and attitudes that allows a person to function within a society with the optimum ratio of success to effort, and individual vs societical gains. It is a construct of inter-personal interactions that simply did not exist before we did.
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That works as a good explanation for why enduring sustainable societies share what have been called "universal moral laws" (e.g. don't steal, don't murder, etc). It's not because of any inherent Rightness or Goodness to such rules... merely that societies that do not have such rules tend to fail (through asimillation, destruction, or instability).