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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 10 January 2013 11:40:50AM 3 points [-]

morality is about letting individuals do as they like, so long as their doing so does not impose costs on others.

Then morality would be about letting babies eat pieces of broken glass, and yet that's not the moral calculation that our brain makes. Indeed our brain might calculate as more "moral" a parent who vaccinates his children against their will, than a parent who lets them eat broken glass as they will.

I wonder if you're mistaking the economico-political injuctions of e.g. libertarianism as to be the same as moral evaluations. Even if you're a libertarian, they're really really not. What's the optimal system for the government to do (or not do) has little to do with what is calculated as moral by our brains.