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o_O.Q said:
Kristof81 said:

All primates show signs of morality. It's "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" type of relation, where wellbeing of whole group is more important than individual gains. It's pretty basic, natural behaviour, which simply pays off and chimpanzees or gorillas don't need God to explain this. 

well generally but that doesn't account for sociopaths or people who simply decide to revoke that social arrangement and that's where the problem of the subjetivity of individuals comes from

Of course. Thanks to our intelligence, our behaviours are more complex than any other creature on this planet. We have common trades as well as unique ones to our species (including all sorts of psychological issues). But there's a striking correlation between moral behaviour of group animals (like us) and their intelligence, so why would we be any different?