Spread of your genes is what’s optimized for by evolution—all of our values are conditional on the reality of how we live and spread our genes. Hive creature? Different values. Solitary creature? Different values. Underwater? Values. Cannibalistic? Eating babies is an important value, it’s unwise to make the relativistic claim that it’s just “social”—that’s a slippery slope to societies with no babyeating at all.
Spread of your genes is what’s optimized for by evolution—all of our values are conditional on the reality of how we live and spread our genes. Hive creature? Different values. Solitary creature? Different values. Underwater? Values. Cannibalistic? Eating babies is an important value, it’s unwise to make the relativistic claim that it’s just “social”—that’s a slippery slope to societies with no babyeating at all.