Written by Harsh Thakur, India (cinemarhymes@gmail.com)
Morals are a byproduct of evolution; they are an expression of our emotional attitude. Traits like reciprocal altruism, “I’ll help you if you help me” in social groups, and kin altruism, which is protecting the relative’s shared genes, are the created instincts for cooperation, guilt, and empathy, and they are, in the end, rooted in self-interest.
So-called moral things feel good. That’s why you tend to do that: your ultimate goal is to maximise pleasure and minimise suffering, and that’s what it does.
Moral feelings reflect our desires, and we have those desires because we are conditioned like that. Finally, morality is not objective.
Being good and moral doesn’t even come from religion. You don’t even have to be religious to be a good person and have a moral code. You can just be rational and have so-called ethics and morals. Let me ask you one question now first: do you believe in evolution? If yes, then do you think that the “moral code” was there from the start? Does every species have it, and did the human species have morals from the start? Do you think that it’s just today that MOST people have some kind of moral code? Morality has also evolved over time. And morality doesn’t guarantee anything. Morality is not objective, and it doesn’t have a fixed purpose.
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