A Brief History of Moral Evolution

American Thinker.com ^ | June 20, 2021 | William Hamilton

[Kaslin]

Morality is a body of behavioral standards or principles derived from a particular philosophy, religion, or culture. More recently, it can derive from a behavioral standard that a person believes should be universal (i.e., personal morality).

Progressive morality practiced today is inadequate because of its dependence on who or what gets to define good and bad behavior through the action of moral relativism (see below). This inadequacy is reflected in the fact that it can operate in an inconsistent manner over time and eventually lead to large-scale social instability.

To achieve a "stable" moral standard less subject to the vagaries that arise from the actions of moral relativism (which is the guiding principle behind most of progressivism — i.e., do what makes you feel good), the following analogy is helpful:

Morality is to a society as the operating system is to a computer. Since an efficient operating system provides optimum interoperability among applications running at the same time, the same should be required of morality when it is applied to all individuals "interoperating" within a society. Morality could also be viewed as the "operating system" that governs a society, which makes it an extremely important societal feature that should be protected. This suggests a new kind of morality.

Morality is the body of behavioral standards that provide optimum economic and social benefits to a person living within the society, while simultaneously providing the same optimum benefits to the whole society — benefits that give the whole society the ability to adapt and flourish in response to changing social circumstances from both within and without.

[Nateman]

[Nateman]

Religion is the best way ever used to get people to work together thru generations and maintain a Civilization. Somehow the notion that people have something that is going to work better has taken hold and we are paying the price of disregarding centuries of wisdom.

[dsc]

Can’t tell the players without a scorecard:

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[NetAddicted]

Really well written!