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keyblader1985 posted...

You're not factoring basic morals into that.

You're assigning them more relative value than they actually have.

Most "morals" are just ingrained socialized behavior. It's the virtues and responsibilities we teach kids to prevent them from being feral animals, and most morality evolved over time as a sort of reciprocal altruism mechanic to allow larger groups of people to live in close proximity without killing each other. It's not our innate nature, as much as it is the necessary framework we've built up over thousands of years to prosper in SPITE of our innate nature.

And again, we believe in morality because we spend most of our early lives having it pounded into our heads, and then most of the rest of our lives having it reinforced by society as a whole. But the more capable you become of ignoring that reinforcement and escaping that initial conditioning, the more the real human being comes out.

And that human being is almost always an asshole.

As a species, most of our successes stem from the fact that we learned to lie to each other, and to believe in things that aren't concrete or even true in order to deny our basic nature. A gorilla never thinks about not being a gorilla or trying to define why a gorilla HAS to be separate and qualitatively different from all other animals, but humans do it as a matter of course, because we're ultimately ashamed of what we really are.


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