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Watch out, your human exceptionalism is misleading you. Plenty of animals have a sense of morality (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6404642/ https://pm
by kennywinker 3d ago
Watch out, your human exceptionalism is misleading you. Plenty of animals have a sense of morality (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6404642/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6404642/).
For social animals (humans included) behaving morally can be adaptive behaviour. Your fitness is increased by group fitness.
- ilt 3d agoThanks tor sharing this!
- joe_the_user 3d agoCertain animals, usually social species, have a sense of solidarity, morality and fairness. But even in species where this exists, cheating also happens. Both ethics and unethical behavior is adaptive. Notably, present human society has allowed tremendously unethical leaders to rise to the top of given nations and organizations despite the average person usually having basic ethics.