Wouldn't you survive better by getting rid of your comptetiion for resources?
2007-09-25 12:57:44 · 7 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow, lots of different opinions!
2007-09-26 02:23:56 · update #1
No, morality is based entirely upon the Doctrine of God.
2007-09-26 01:51:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's based on common sense and survival.
Humans needed to be altruistic so they could split up all the jobs in a given camp. Jobs like child-rearing, hunting, gathering and construction. That made the camps more efficient and sophisticated. Being nice and respectful to each other made the camps even more efficient. Can't get a lot done when everyone is fighting all the time.
If there's a shortage of resources if would be advantageous to get rid of the competition, that is if there was nowhere else to go to get necessary resources. But that wasn't the case in the rise of hominids. There was lots of space and not a lot of people.
2007-09-25 20:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No morality is based on ones upbringing. It is based on the examples set by the people that are in ones life. Every culture has different morals based on what was around them as the grew up.
As far as getting rid of competitors for resources. Again the answer is no many mammals live in family groups in order to survive. This is how people started out as well but with our superior intelligence we learned to trade with one another rather that to try to eliminate competition.
2007-09-25 20:08:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of reasons why being good is instincts. Way way long ago (like 8000 B.C.) people had very little contact with tribes other than their own. So people in their tribes were very often closly related. One reason to be nice to others in the tribes was that chances were they had the same genes as you. Another reason was that, if you did something nice for someone, they might do something nice for you (you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours). A third reason might be that if you continually did nice things for others, you might get a reputation for being nice, so people would respect you. And since this was all so long ago, it got imprinted into our genes over time.
2007-09-25 20:05:36 · answer #4 · answered by Cameron C. 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, good question!
I think morality is a set of implied codes set by society to keep people in check. One's own sense of morality doesn't always ( or in my case hardly ever) lines up with what is understood to be "traditional" morality.
Often, morality is used as a cop out to rob yourself of life's experiences. So, no. It isn't based on instinct, but social morays to contain anarchy.
2007-09-25 20:11:58 · answer #5 · answered by AngelaRobin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
An individual human is a very weak creature compared to most.
But as a group that can communicate and cooperate, it is the the most powerful creature on the planet.
Morality is based on our need to live in societies.
2007-09-25 20:08:13 · answer #6 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
morals are based on fears, desires are based on instincts.
2007-09-25 20:06:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋