THE FUTURE OF MORALITY REQUIES EDUCATION AND TRAINING – HUMANS OVERSIMPLIFY OTHE

THE FUTURE OF MORALITY REQUIES EDUCATION AND TRAINING – HUMANS OVERSIMPLIFY OTHERWISE

In the future, under NLI’s Natural Law of Cooperation, we would expect children to learn and adults to practice asking questions seeking to undersetand moral differences and decide accordingly rather than asserting opinions – and moreover opinions – as presumptive truths.

And moral differences in what context? To yourself? Or a mate, or a family member, or a close friend, or someone in your workplace, or someone in interpersonal commerce, or someone in the general commons of society, or someone in politics, or someone who is an ally, or a potential ally, or a new introduction to an alien context, or even an anemy?

Humans try to simplify morality as they try to simply everything so that they don’t have to think and can just react from intuition and emotion. But this is the morality of the hunter gatherer band – of proto-humans not modern humans.

Instead, to train ourselves to not oversimplify, especially the moral, we require education and repetitive practice, so that we categorize circumstances accordingly.

The most simple among us confuse the moral wants of their own (solipsism), or those of the family (lesser solipsism) with the moral wants and needs of contexts where each of us has less value to one another and less want and need of compromise with one another.

So moral obligations differ with proximity of the releations between us.

That does not mean we cannot alway start from treating all others as kin (near relations) which is the most optimistic relation possible – it’s the foundation and nearly the sole purpose of christian religion.

However, that does not mean we should expect reciprocity in that optimistic relation, or that others share that optimism.

Instead we should recognize that such optimism is merely a pragmatism that our civilization has discovered, and that all people in all cultures ac pragmatically according the the pragmatic mmorals of their civilizations, cultures, and classes.

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