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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Morality is in part our nature as a social animal, wolves, chimps, baboons, and lions all have their own morality which allows them to function together, no reason we should be different. Its then maintained by threat of force/punishment in their cases and in ours.
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Precisely. Morality is an extension of our hunter-gatherer days where the good of the pack was as important if not more so than the good of the individual so far as survival of the species. A lone human a little over 10,000 years ago stood a lesser chance of survival without a pack. With a pack, a human could defend against predators, hunt with a higher success rate, could find a mate, and could establish better shelter. This even lead to specific skill sets becoming possible, which lead to the shift to an agrarian society.
This is also why I believe that socialism is the natural state of humans, but Ustwo may not agree with that 100%.