Moral Foundations

For the Psyche Genetic theory to hold true the following ethical structures have to be accepted as the foundation upon which all other moral adoptions are predicated.

Sharing
Work
Courage
Loving and caring
Conscientious craftsmanship
Creativity
Intellectual appreciation

Each of those primary behavioral ethics took two and a half million years of graduated conscious development in order to form the basic human character. They define our intelligence. They are an intrinsic part of our DNA. Without those behavioral imprints we would be faced with the impossible task of trying to civilizing a chimpanzee with every new born. Any moral precept adopted beyond that is relatively superficial.


Absolutism rejects both the classic and hierarchical view - it says that only one moral perspective/belief can be valid leaving no validity to uphold any other perspective/belief. That's too extreme a view for me. I don't think we can say that if one system of ethics works for everyone on the whole that no other system could possibly have any level of validity to it.


If the base ethics established during our rise of consciousness is accepted as immutable, I agree with you as regards further moral adoptions. Consciousness evolves basically under the same laws of natural selection that the physical does. Environmental imperatives were and will always be the underlying dynamic that forces us to choose behavioral ethics that will continue our evolution.

Vegetarianism is a case in point. It may well be that meat eating and the slaughter of billions of animals is seen by all of us in the future as a gross violation of base ethics and ultimately damaging to the collective psyche. The environment itself may well force us to stop it before we decide to.

As our evolution advances any new moral adoptions that clearly benefit the on-going development of the collective psyche will then add to the base.

In the mean time viva la difference.