Quote: (04-04-2019 12:53 PM)questor70 Wrote:
But from an evopsych perspective I see morality as an adaptation facilitating child-rearing and tribal cooperation. Where humans fight other humans, this is the downside of the tribalism and male dominance hierarchies
This is mostly true, but you are missing the beam of hope:
Empathy
This is why most atheists are decent people, why we don't torture animals, rape grannies and steal things.
We know inherently that its a bad thing to have happen to us through empathy, so we don't do it to others.
When we collectively treat each other well, we succeed as a tribe/team/society and we all benefit and pass on our genes.
Revenge, jealousy and protecting turf (nationalism, racism, war) are the dark side of the equation, but still aimed at the same goal - keeping everyone honest and doing the right thing for the good of the tribe.
Even religion was invented to sort of do the same thing - make people behave so the tribe can flourish.
Our problem is the 3% of psychopaths that are in the gene pool - they fuck it up for everyone, be their religious or not, especially when they get into positions of power.