Overarching Moral Concepts
Existence: Moral Realism~Social Construct Morality exists as a suite of several subconcepts that grade between prescriptions to evolved to fundamental. Moral Prescriptions - Prescriptions, like money, are social consctructions that tend to matter because everyone treats them like they matter, and everyone treats them as such because they are useful. The prescription "people ought not steal" itself is not structured to have truth value, it is structured like a warning or advise, but instead has implications about human social life regarding consequences of behavior ( var b ), an aversion to harm/loss ( var c ), and an intuition to detect entropy ( var a ). These prescriptions are tools that result from mental processes supported by moral instincts which are sourced from evolution. Evolved Morality - Humans evolved as social creatures interested in survival and reproduction, which can be idealized as well-being and prosperity. This interest leads people to behav...