Reply #188: "groups work out rules that encourage the survival of the group" [View All]

[Duppers]

Yep, true that! Anthropology 101.

All highly social animal have rules (morals) that encourage the survival of the group.

We're on the same page. "There is no Golden rule." None other than those that increase our survival and those guided by our enhanced empathy for/with others. Morality is nothing more.

Suggested: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11350
and: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10894

Also, the very agnostic Noam Chomsky often writes about morality.

Bottom line is that morality exists w/o religious dogma, always has. Whatever enhances empathy, kindness, and love increases our chances of survival and that of our planet. That doesn't take organized dogma.