| Victorlink87 said: Fairly bleak to be sure. This is why government and religion exists. (Both of which can be corrupted by people).
But being morally broken doesn't necessarily mean we are always going to do the immoral thing. Rather, that if it is questionable or downright wrong or can be messed up we will find a way to do it. Not everyone in everyway, just everyone in their own way with their own vice. Unfortunately, this also means we will do some messed up things as a society because they are grey or not understood or we are greedy (slavery on that last one). Amazing how at the root of every major social evil from the past from slavery to genocide is pride and greed.
I do see morality as objective, but not without room for interpretation and not to the degree that every decision we make has a moral right/wrong. Rather that the basics are true, I will list the positive: love, patience, charity, kindness, honesty, integrity, etc. |
Morality is basically an artifact of our species' effort to further itself. These things we deem positive (and I agree, those things you listed are all considered right), are done so because we need a framework of rules that prevents us from doing things that would likely threaten our odds at surviving. Some of those things you mentioned didn't exist before the dawn of civilization.
I think even though we aren't perfect as a species, I'd lean towards us being more moral than immoral. The proof is in the numbers. Seven billion people show the rules we've followed through the morality we've made works. And they work really well, because the population was less than half (three billion) in 1960.
