Let me out on my Professor Z hat on.
TLDR: Human beings are animals. Nature is amoral. Morality is a social construction to reduce intergroup conflict. Human beings are naturally amoral, but are socialized to adhere to the norms and moral beliefs of the group. The belief in God has been declining since the 1800s as education becomes democraticized. What keeps humans in line is their natural inclination to anti-social behavior and how they are socialized.
Humans are animals at the end of the day. We were created by nature. The three ways you die is through disease, violence or old age.
Humans are violent but we do not have a great natural capacity for individual violence due to our bodies. We are small, soft, squish, slow and weak compared to most mammals.
But nature gave us the greatest advantage over other animals. Our social intelligence which gives us the ability to organize. Together we a great capacity for violence, alone, not so much.
The humans that survive are the ones that can band together. Which means they had to have a high level of agreeableness and empathy compared to the other humans to reduce intergroup conflicts.
Social norms, rituals, morality, beliefs are developed to create social cohesion. Human beings born into the band or clan are the socialized, removing their natural anti-social inclinations to behave in a way to benefit the group.
The more advanced the formation of the human organization, the less violent and anti-social the people are within the organization.
As the world becomes more integrated via communication technology and modern economies the less violent and anti-social we have become.
Morality doesn't exist. There is no such thing as good and evil. Right or wrong. There's only prescriptions on how to behave to benefit the group.
By the mid-1800s, most educated people in the West did not believe in God, heaven and hell. The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution completely destroyed the educated belief in Judeo-Christianity. As education has become democraticized the belief in organized religion has become less and less significant as educated people tend not to be religious.
Hell doesn't keep people in line and never did. Shit there's studies that even the law doesn't keep people in line.
What keeps people in line is how prevalent their natural inclination to anti-social behavior is and how they are socialized.
TLDR: Human beings are animals. Nature is amoral. Morality is a social construction to reduce intergroup conflict. Human beings are naturally amoral, but are socialized to adhere to the norms and moral beliefs of the group. The belief in God has been declining since the 1800s as education becomes democraticized. What keeps humans in line is their natural inclination to anti-social behavior and how they are socialized.
Humans are animals at the end of the day. We were created by nature. The three ways you die is through disease, violence or old age.
Humans are violent but we do not have a great natural capacity for individual violence due to our bodies. We are small, soft, squish, slow and weak compared to most mammals.
But nature gave us the greatest advantage over other animals. Our social intelligence which gives us the ability to organize. Together we a great capacity for violence, alone, not so much.
The humans that survive are the ones that can band together. Which means they had to have a high level of agreeableness and empathy compared to the other humans to reduce intergroup conflicts.
Social norms, rituals, morality, beliefs are developed to create social cohesion. Human beings born into the band or clan are the socialized, removing their natural anti-social inclinations to behave in a way to benefit the group.
The more advanced the formation of the human organization, the less violent and anti-social the people are within the organization.
As the world becomes more integrated via communication technology and modern economies the less violent and anti-social we have become.
Morality doesn't exist. There is no such thing as good and evil. Right or wrong. There's only prescriptions on how to behave to benefit the group.
By the mid-1800s, most educated people in the West did not believe in God, heaven and hell. The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution completely destroyed the educated belief in Judeo-Christianity. As education has become democraticized the belief in organized religion has become less and less significant as educated people tend not to be religious.
Hell doesn't keep people in line and never did. Shit there's studies that even the law doesn't keep people in line.
What keeps people in line is how prevalent their natural inclination to anti-social behavior is and how they are socialized.
