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Morality is just a certain innate functionality in our brains as it expresses itself based on our life experiences. This is entirely consistent with the assertion that what most people mean by morality -- an objective standard of conduct that is written into the fabric of reality itself -- does not exist: there is no such thing!
To use Eliezer's terminology, you seem to be saying that "morality" is a 2-place word:
Morality: Species, Act -> [0, âÂÂ)
which can be "curried", i.e. can "eat" the first input to become a 1-place word:
Homosapiens::Morality == Morality_93745