Why do people say that Evolution is amoral? Because it can’t be used to justify their moral intuitions, in fact it contradicts them quite often.
Which is exactly what you would expect if morality were partly genetic, partly cultural, and partly rational.
If you accept the Evolutionary Morality you have to accept is as as objective as the process of Evolution itself.
But you have a choice about accepting it, which is where the trouble starts. Evolutionary morality is a morality,: the question is what is the morality.
They state, “Ethics as we understand it is an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to cooperate.”[8] Our genes thought we ought to cooperate; Why because of evolutionary pressures and evolution looks poorly on those that don’t heed evolutionary pressures. That gives you the ‘ought’(you ought to behave in a way that passes your gemmules to the next generation) needed for a system on Ethics.
If you accept the illusion. But just because you feel you ought to do something..doesn’t mean you ought to do it.
Which is exactly what you would expect if morality were partly genetic, partly cultural, and partly rational.
But you have a choice about accepting it, which is where the trouble starts. Evolutionary morality is a morality,: the question is what is the morality.
If you accept the illusion. But just because you feel you ought to do something..doesn’t mean you ought to do it.