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An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025 (lemmy.world)

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[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yet you, and every other human still engage in moral behaviors.

Just human? I mean, sure do, but we're leaving out a huge array of animals who also engage in rudimentary moral behavior.

You have some prescriptive intuition buried deep inside you.

Of course, we evolved to be social animals did we not? What else would you expect but inate instinctual "rules" when they'd lead to a clearly fitter society.

The ability to describe the components, inputs and outputs of that intuition is the entire conversation.

Right, and just like the variation in genetic material this variation in inputs and outputs that we all have which are wholly unique to us as individuals and while remarkably similar to others raised in similar environments, also remarkably unique in subtle ways.

I agree this is the entire conversation. And the obviousness of this fact, that moral expression is subtly unique to each individual, is the ultimate answer to the question.

If you are raised in a subjectively different environment, then the rules you learn to behave by will be subjective to that environment.