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Comment author: MichaelBishop 11 June 2009 03:01:37PM *  1 point [-]

our moral judgements are instinctive, subconscious, evolved features...

To a first approximation, yes. But sometimes people here underestimate the importance of culture in shaping morality. See the sub-discipline of cultural psychology, e.g. Richard Shewder. Jon Haidt and Joshua Greene rightly place more emphasis on the biological basis and evolutionary origins of morality, but there is still quite a bit of room for culture.