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What morality is is not truth, but a way to get social coordination done. https://t.co/zbOjuHjdpM
What morality is is an evolved coordination mechanism in social primates to create a shared social sense of what is right and wrong and what must be done. https://t.co/jbbCvdYNny
Core thesis: Just like “lust” evolved as an emotion in our head . . . to keep animals reproducing . . . so did the feeling of morality. That sense that somebody is a bad person? It was a way for social primates to cohere as a group and enforce normed survival.
What morality is is a Schelling point for conflict resolution to streamline and smoothen conflicts in a systemic framework. https://t.co/MlGekazcjp
Sometimes, it’s not the most helpful thing. https://t.co/tYtjxItW1i
I think a lot more relationships would be clearer if they eschewed the talk of morality in conflicts and instead just focused on what is—their feelings and the degree to which they do care about the intertwingling of those together. https://t.co/8TL4gJc51B