So this is why we have the Delphi effect in our Western World.
Too many beatniks and artists in New York and Osborne Village!
Wow, what an interesting article. I have always figured that morality was but a tool for our survival, but never as far as to, possibly, have it written within our genes. (Although it comes as a surprise that this may be so, somehow I am not THAT surprised, when I look at my own views about how we only live to survive.) I had figured that instead, the necessity for such elements was presented by the subconscious and then conditioned unto humans by those who raise them, which would explain the seemingly diverse sort of peoples everywhere in society. Therefore, I had never thought much about the evolutionary elements this may have, and its actual significance. How weird. Just like, an off branch thing, and not a root like matter as the article suggests.
But then, the article offers a suggestion about the same concepts around the world, but on different levels and varying nature. So I can see the link this may have with evolution, as was said in the article...some people live more as a unity in themselves with strong religious practices and beliefs, while we here believe that we are all free, and because of this, have less ''stable'' societies, even though we are more ''advanced''.
It might sound racist and mean, but think about how people in India live by spirituality and honour, and take it in great significance as we do with the media and technological advancement-perhaps they are a shade of what we used to be.
Because before Canada and the United States were as we know them today, most of our ancestors came from Europe, and in the Middle Ages and long after, they were subjected to religious oppression, much like folks in Iraq or India face death should they corrupt their arranged marriages.
Oh, how interesting, and I feel as if I am wasting my life. Those are the sort of subjects I would have loved to study in. But instead, I have to serve food to people, and ask myself if it is morally wrong or right to urinate in their meal should they be rude to me. I wonder if that is selfish, since it would only bring me satisfaction...aah, I would have offered something better of a reply, but I have just spent my last waking energies to read the article.
Interesting Article about Morality and Evolution
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