The Future of Morality And Why There Is No Good And Evil
Good and evil are well-established concepts. We use them no matter whether these old phenomena really apply. With the modern study of morality, we come to new discoveries that can completely change the view of this issue.
Valuation of Morality
Morality is based on our social values, that’s the idea of the benefit of individuals in society. If we have experience with people that they want to harm, we will create value that it is better to avoid them or even destroy them because they are harmful. This creates our moral evaluation, from which our behavior towards these people flows. We could call this kind of morality and our resulting behavior “evil morality”.
Morality, of course, comes from our needs and our intentions. The point is that these people take more from us than they give us (for simplicity, let’s take thieves). The problem is that this is true even if people are harmless but own something we want (for example, a passer-by with a brand new mobile phone). Again, we measure two values according to how it pays off for us within our intention (motivation). Don’t rob or rob? Why should we not rob the person in question and save…
