IS MORALITY RELATIVE? (NO) THE CORRECT ANSWER As always, I’ll ‘science it’ and p

IS MORALITY RELATIVE? (NO)

THE CORRECT ANSWER
As always, I’ll ‘science it’ and provide the analytic answer.

SPECTRUM:

**Evil** < Immoral < unethical < bad (undesirable) good (desirable) > Ethical > Moral > **Virtuous**
The human brain uses only three chemicals to provide us with incentives. These were necessary before we developed agency (choice and consciousness). And once we evolved agency all we have done is increase the complexity of the circumstances we can predict and choose from. The most important of these chemicals is the one that encourages us to preserve or acquire calories in time with the energy we possess given the returns that those calories will provide. We maintain intuitionistic measures of our energy level, our inventory of assets, our inventory of opportunities, our inventory of cooperative debts (others have invested in us), and credits (we have invested in others). And human cognition accounts for caloric opportunities, gains, and costs, with extraordinary precision.

One of the most surprising assets we possess is our self-image and social status (our market value in cooperation with others). Because the highest returns always are provided through cooperation. And this cooperation – voluntary cooperation that is in our interests – is the reason for human exceptional success in relation to other creatures. The degree of cooperation and what we cooperate to produce also determines the relative condition of groups of people (classes, nations, civilizations).

As such bad refers to the imposition of costs upon the inventories of others: energies, assets, opportunities, and credits. And good refers to the increase in inventory, energy, assets, opportunities, and credits (or decrease in debts).

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