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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
really? you knew a lot of cavemen, then? now on the one hand you're saying morality is innate, and on the other that it evolved out of a desire to survive. now let me point out that the desire to survive is none other than the fear of death, so if you're saying that morality probably evolved out of the fear of death i would say that's certainly possible, but you haven't sidestepped the fear issue. if, on the other hand, it didn't evolve and it's just completely innate then it seems absurd that it would be the subject of so much discussion, seeing as how we all already agree.
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No. He's saying that there is a basic sense of morality inherent in (most) humans that's separate from what environmental and societal evolution has instilled.
I don't agree that the need for survival has any relation to a
natural moral compass. I believe that innate morality is emotional in nature, not intellectual.