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Originally Posted by jwb
ah, I see. That's not how we (or any other species) are wired. That's basically just utilitarian morality, which is a relatively recent human invention in philosophy which doesn't reflect how we actually seem to be wired to act.
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That's negative utilitarism, to be exact. I think that it is actually what most modern people's morals are based on (that's how it is for me anyway), but it's probably true that our natural instincts obey a different morality: one that's purely based on the successful survival of ourselves and our kin. However, I guess that nurture has wired us to try to act utilitarian.
By the way, it's funny how much human morals change throughout history