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What are the real origins of human morality? God or evolution? Which tribe is more likely to survive over the long run and even thrive?
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar The real origin of human morality comes from evolution, or more specifically, the society that we chose to evolve as time passed, as us being as nice as we are now, is not in our genetic makeup. I'm not going to discredit the morals that religion has given us, religion has spread a lot of happiness, and kindness to lots of people. But people don't typically make laws based on religion, and even when people say they do, they typically do so with corrupt intentions.

If you think about it, human rights is a relatively new concept. We've been on this planet as humans for around 40,000 years, and only since the 1990s, has the concept of human rights been implemented widespread through society. We now live in a society where it is illegal to discriminate. That is human rights in its own right. Yes people were always punished for murders in the BC times, but anti-discrimination laws? It's strange! We're lucky to live with them.

Humans are naturally selfish beings, who care only about maximising their interest. It's only when we curbed and conditioned our instinctive selfish ways away and decide to install human rights into society, did the moral structure in society happen as we know it. Religion is not responsible for us having human rights, it was the idea of someone who was intelligent. We evolved to support human rights to make things fair, but we could have been in a situation where human rights don't exist anywhere on the planet.

If by evolution you mean nature, then no. If by evolution you mean who we changed in society over time, then yes. But religion, definitely not! Religion can't even ensure people are nice where religious laws are used to install corruption. The Catholic Church was extortionate too!
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