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A few basic aspects of it wouldn't change, would they? For example, mutually beneficial social cooperation, vs aggression and alienation.And that changes over time/place/society thus morals are subjective
Just thinking off the top of my head here:
- Compromise
- Sharing of work
- Protection the young
"Moralities are sets of self-perpetuating and biologically-driven behaviors which encourage human cooperation. Biologists contend that all social animals, from ants to elephants, have modified their behaviors, by restraining immediate selfishness in order to improve their evolutionary fitness. Human morality, although sophisticated and complex relative to other animals, is essentially a natural phenomenon that evolved to restrict excessive individualism that could undermine a group's cohesion and thereby reducing the individuals' fitness."
It is this broad and general interpretation of morality, the will to social cooperation, that is the foundation of all (arguably subjective) higher-order morals.
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