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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
If morality is just a social convention, that it has no important reality. Most human organizations can be easily overturned and destroyed, and their morals along with them.
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I think that morality is important for humans. Without it we would destroy ourselves. You can argue that the destruction of mankind isn't significant for the universe, but it certainly is important from the perspective of man.
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
I enjoyed Barrowaj's hinting at morality being an evolutionary outgrowth, I think this is very close to the truth.
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I meant to do more than hint at it... I believe that this is the underlying cause for morality, and I think the fact that it helps us survive makes it relevant.
Lets use the suicide bomber as an example. The suicide bomber believes that blowing himself up and killing a bunch of people is going to advance his cause, which is the propagation of radical Islam. The terrorist group that he belongs to thinks that this is a moral cause, and the bomber thinks that this is a moral cause. However, the greater part of society that he is blowing up probably does not. Therefore his actions are immoral. But if you believe that morality is a evolutionary outgrowth, then the only way to judge effective morality is by whether a "moral" is advantageous to society. In the case of the suicide bomber, I would argue that his cause is a hinderance to the advancement of mankind, and is therefore immoral. So you see that morality IS relevant for man.