Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
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Context: Mr. Dubois instructs his History and Moral Philosophy class on evolutionary ethics.
Source: Chapter 8
"You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal…
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke…
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year-old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year-old genius.