The other day, on the way to crew, I was discussing with a friend where we thought morality comes from. A note, by morality, I mean a conscious feeling of right and wrong.He said that this feeling of right and wrong "could be god... it is a possibility."
I disagreed. I am not going to speak of the varying of morals between societies. Instead, I said that because human's are pack animals, those of us who felt the most empathy for other humans lived and reproduced and natural selection had its way with the rest. To back this up even more, I pointed to the way that empathy in humans manifests itself. One does not feel nearly as guilty killing a thousand people across the world with a button as you would killing one man with a knife. This is because seeing the human face, and empathizing with it, causes your conscience to tell you you are doing something wrong. I said that people do good things for similar reasons; they see others in situations that they could imagine themselves in.
He responded with, "What do you think about people who give to charity anonymously to people that they have never met or seen." I think that there are two reasons for this. It makes you feel good about yourself and even if you haven't seen someone, that doesn't mean that you haven't imagined them.
Whose side do you take on this argument? Before you tell me, I am aware that this post was probably biased towards my argument.
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