Morality is a Human Invention

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Morality is a Human Invention

To approach the subject of Morality, one must first gird himself well, for the road is a difficult one. The perennial questions often revolve around what is Right and what is Wrong, so an explanation here is difficult at best, and futile, at worst.

Nevertheless, I shall begin with a quote from Twilight of the Idols, by Nietzsche:

"I formulate a principle. All naturalism in morality, that is all healthy morality, is dominated by an instinct of life- some commandment of life is fulfilled through a certain canon of 'shall' and 'shall not', some hindrance and hostile element on life's road is thereby removed. Anti-natural morality, that is virtually every morality that has hitherto been taught, reverenced and preached, turns on the contrary precisely against the instincts of life- it is a now secret, now loud and impudent condemnation of these instincts. By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life. . . .The saint in whom God takes pleasure in is the ideal castrate. . . .Life is at an end where the 'kingdom of God' begins. . ."

The genealogy of morals finds it's antecedents and roots in religion, which takes an amoral "Social Contract," and quickly transmogrifies it into a system of Good and Bad. The social contract is necessary for any civilization to occur, as anarchy, (i.e. the absence of a governing body,) is the antithesis of civilization. All the civilizations of history have been governed by a body, be it a plutocracy, oligarchy, democracy, dictatorship, etc. Even third-world tribes of Africa and South America are governed by a patriarch.

So a social contract, where I do not kill you, in e...

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...ng to "Needs Met."

Because in the animal kingdom, Need is all that matters.

Forget pity, because it runs contrary to all the natural laws of evolution.

Forget evil, because a life built solely upon self-preservation is without malice, without hate, and without greed.

Forget good, because we would only be acting as our biological and territorial programming dictated.

And when someone strays from the natural path, and endangers us, we would be wise to kill the individual, thus insuring our survival and the survival of the species.

Morality is a human invention. The universe knows no good or bad. To quote the Tao Teh Ching, "Heaven and Earth in not sentimental; it treats all things as straw dogs." Since there is not any law higher than the law of evolution, that is, the survival of the fittest, we must look to ourselves, and hope we are fit.

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