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Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Evolution of Morality

There's this universalizing element to morality. My personal opinion is that it is a thing that evolved because it helps groups coordinate to avoid actions that are harmful for the group. A lot of cultures have taboos against like touching dead bodies or cannibalism. There just isn't any fact of the matter about what considerations are moral and what considerations are not moral.

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