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by TeMPOraL 2043 days ago
> Well, as stated before, morality isn't the same between humans. There's no objective authority that decides X is right or Y is wrong, simply social/cultural influences throughout the world.

Worth remembering that it's also not the case that every person has different morality, and everyone's moral values are uniformly distributed across the space of possible values.

No, the moral values of humans are all very strongly correlated, both within and across societies. We spend a lot of time bikeshedding the details, but we essentially have a shared sense of what's right and wrong.

(I hypothesize it's because we all have the same brain architecture - the basic moral sense is encoded in firmware, and through culture we adapt it to fit the environments and societies we live in.)

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I would question your point, "that moral values [...] are very strongly correlated [...] across societies". My favourite example is the Aztecs society. Moral values were completly different.

Sparta is another example. The Nazi regime in Germany too. Slavery in the US. I could keep going for another hour.

Moral values are highly dependent on you environmental influences.

Nevertheless you are totaly correct, that the majority of people in a single society shares similair views on moral rules.