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The answer to your question ironically is the result of a high degree of cephalization, or the development of our frontal lobe; a major center for all of our higher cognitive capabilities. Which can be seen as an adaptation due to natural selection.
Morality, or the actions that result from one's morality (doing nice things for others, etc) can actually be seen as a survival technique from an evolutionary perspective. Back before we became colonized, when we were still a nomadic people living in small to moderately sized groups or clans, doing nice things for one another often resulted in remaining on good terms with the clan. If one was overly selfish, belligerent, or generally unhelpful, they could be shunned from the clan and forced to fend for themselves; often leading to the death of the shunned individual. So you can see how over time people with strong family ties and helpful attitudes could develop into what we now call "morals" today.
As for religion, it is believed that as we gained more reasoning abilities we started to seek answers for natural phenomena that frightened us. Since we were unable to recreate thunder storms and earthquakes ourselves, we reasoned that a higher power must've been at work. We then started to pay homage to that higher power so that we might get to live in favorable conditions, a precursor to worship practices we see today.
Morality, or the actions that result from one's morality (doing nice things for others, etc) can actually be seen as a survival technique from an evolutionary perspective. Back before we became colonized, when we were still a nomadic people living in small to moderately sized groups or clans, doing nice things for one another often resulted in remaining on good terms with the clan. If one was overly selfish, belligerent, or generally unhelpful, they could be shunned from the clan and forced to fend for themselves; often leading to the death of the shunned individual. So you can see how over time people with strong family ties and helpful attitudes could develop into what we now call "morals" today.
As for religion, it is believed that as we gained more reasoning abilities we started to seek answers for natural phenomena that frightened us. Since we were unable to recreate thunder storms and earthquakes ourselves, we reasoned that a higher power must've been at work. We then started to pay homage to that higher power so that we might get to live in favorable conditions, a precursor to worship practices we see today.
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I believe it comes from our lack of need to survive. As you said, for animals its survival of the fittest. But us humans have come to a point where the 'fittest' can survive quite easily and so can allow him/herself to help the weaker ones, and so our priorities have gone from surviving to more unimportant things.
At least that's what I think.
At least that's what I think.
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Primates tend to be social animals. There are social codes for other primates.
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Does war's signify that us the humans are moral?
We still believe "Survival of the fittest"; you got power you got everything.
We still believe "Survival of the fittest"; you got power you got everything.
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I believe it comes from our brain as people get smarter and smarter. Since moral is absolutely necessary for a society to maintain its proper form.
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Some animals have better morals than we have. The only creature on the face of the earth that will inflict pain upon itself only to cause pain to others (aka spite) is......drumroll......HUMANS!!