kuco23
1 min readAug 11, 2022

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So, yes, evolution doesn't care about our notions of morality, so it goes with whatever is productive. If raping children was productive, then we'd have paedophiles all around us. And we'd find it normal. The only reason we don't right now is because it was not productive in many ways. Preserving children seems to be important, so we are very sensitive about that.

So, I think you're neglecting an important product of evolution - morality. It can be explained as a beneficial mutation that kept people from killing each other and enabled people working together. And most of us seem to agree on what it is.

Just look at your argument - the basis was "master race is bad". It's a moral argument. So, evolution doesn't necessarily imply a master race. It gave us this weird things like empathy and morality that we feel can serve as a basis for our reasoning.

What I'm trying to say is that everything we are as a society is a product of evolution. Morality included. Us agreeing on what things are bad (like a master race) is a product of evolution.

I know you don't agree with that but I honestly can't explain where morality comes from in any other way and this one seems to make logical sense.

And I would like to disagree about us not having progresses in philosophical ideas. If you look at what was considered moral in the bible, we have come very far. We have incredibly high moral standards, that just didn't exist, say 1000 years ago.

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kuco23
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