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Originally Posted by leewong
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The Khmer more than likely viewed their actions as justified. Hitler probably thought he was a pretty rad dude. Jeffrey Dahmer probably liked the taste of humans. What's your point? That is just more evidence that morality is a concept and not some concrete edict written on our hearts by a sky daddy.
Morality is a concept. I can ask you to picture a doorknob. When you imagine a doorknob it may be very different than the picture I have in my mind as a doorknob. Is the concept of doorknobs somehow negated by that? Have humans not refined the concept over the centuries? So yes, morality can evolve through a society and be refined but not everyone has to share that same morality.
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The point is that concepts are able to be disregarded or transcended without impunity.
Example of such concepts: democracy, materialism, religion, human government, marriage.
You can reject these concepts as right or wrong and be considered a "normal human".
You cannot reject the immutable sense of morality that says it is wrong to murder millions of people despite your own ideologies and be considered a "normal human being".
That is not a concept. That is ingrained in humanity.
But it is special to humanity, it is not found in the animal kingdom.
It therefore is not a product of biological evolution.