Final-Fan said: @ Slimebeast: |
That remains to be proven whether apes have morals or not. They're possibly a very unique exception. But that's beside the point. The point was to address his huge misunderstanding of morals by ignoring the requirement of intellect.
But wait, individual learning of proper behaviour (social norms) is still not enough to fullfill the definition of morals. It could be just mental programming without any reason involved which is actually pretty basic and mechanical for animals. Obviously higher order species like rats and wolves individually learn a certain set of behavioural rules on top of their pure instincts, but that doesn't mean they have morals.