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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meh, you are both wrong, evolution doesn't select for ethics. Ethics is two things:

1.A Vestigial emotion used to prevent blood relatives and constantly interacting groups of said relatives from killing each other.

  1. The corruption of said Vestigial emotion by parasitic bad actors to exploit biology to their own advantage.

Ethics has lost all value in fact it is more ethical to actively avoid benefiting the "greater good" to prevent said parasites from gaining more coercion over the "innocent" and only focus on direct familial blood relationships that directly impacts our own biology.

this is not a statement on cynicism or nihilism, the system worked as long as bad actors could be contained or eliminated but as soon as society grew beyond a point that we could actually dissuade bad actors the only moral law became being a bad actor yourself or rather to play by the rules of everyone else.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone's ethics can absolutely include being OK with punishing bad people. I don't know why you're so set on it being vestigial or somehow not able to deal with shitty people...

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Im upset with convergence, that meaning humanity no longer being a species but drones for a queen over a hivemind and, cooperation under bad actors is a direct path to this outcome and not ethical but destructive to individualism a quality I find far more important than probably fictional definitely nebulous ethical code that alters based on geolocation and politics.