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by api 2911 days ago
Here's a dumb question: if God does not exist then why have the majority of moral systems happened upon such large areas of overlap regarding right and wrong? Absent a God there still needs to be an answer to this. It would be likely found in game theory, which is math, which may be onjective.
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Or just the fact that we're all humans and humans tend to have a lot of similarities in their psychological makeup. Any purely logical framework (such as game theory), that doesn't take into account the non-rational aspects of human psychology is going to be ultimately limited in its explanatory power. The reality of human psychology is just as real and objective as human physiology, and the associated variability due to both nature and nurture.
That just bumps the question back to evolutionary dynamics, largely a subfield of game theory. Why are we "wired" to produce these cooperative "nice" social systems?