Morality

Humanity is innately bad. Sociologists often question the origin of morals. Are they inborn or socially ingrained? Are humans bad by nature and only “care” because they have learned to? If that’s the case, where did they learn it from? Who was the first human to decide morals were necessary and then let their ideals spread so that other humans would acquire a conscience? Well I know. Morals aren’t real. Conscience isn’t real. Humans innately live out of self-interest, and the people who have “morals” and a “conscience” are accidental byproducts of the self-serving origin of these so-called “morals.” We don’t say murder is wrong because we think it is wrong to kill. We say murder is wrong so no one murders us. We say it is wrong to steal because we don’t want our possessions stolen. These socially invented “ethics” only extend as far as our self-interest. That’s why we can kill other people—other humans: soul and all—in another country and feel no regret; even happiness. We pride our soldiers on slaying thousands of other humans because they live in another country. They are merely glorified murderers. And what is another country? Invisible lines drawn own an image of the earth. Lines that we think separate one soul from another. God didn’t draw those lines. Children starve all across other parts of the world. They stand on the same Earth; they have the same organs, blood, emotions, brains, the same DNA that defines any human. But simply because they are standing on dirt that is 2,000 miles away, they are less important than someone exactly like them standing on dirt 10 miles away. But we don’t care, because “ethics” and “morals” in the truest sense don’t innately exist. If they did exist we would care. What we know as “ethics” and “morals” are merely rules we all agreed on to keep OURSELVES alive, to keep our own stomachs full and our own greed maintained.