JewishAtheist comments on Ethical Inhibitions - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2008 08:44PM

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Comment author: JewishAtheist 20 October 2008 02:52:01PM 1 point [-]

JA, then where did humans get the brain circuitry that supports morals? Tooth Fairy?

I think we evolved general feelings of empathy as a side-effect of mating and child-raising, and the rest is comprised of cultural education. We don't have a moral sense, we have empathy and we have culture.