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Offline cybercoma

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Re: Philosophy Culture
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2018, 08:37:35 am »
Morality always has been and alway will be a manifestation of tribalism because humans need to belong to a tribe to survive
Morality is about tribalism because religion is the physical manifestation of social structures. When people get together in a group, they feel certain forces and pressures outside of themselves to act in certain ways. There is no such thing as completely free agency. In pre-modern times, they gave an identity to social forces through religious and spiritual symbolism, rituals, etc. Those social forces are the combination of individual actions, but they lose their place within individual action to become something bigger outside the individuals that then acts back upon them. They begin to influence individual agency, despite being the consequence of an aggregate of individuals acting in patterned ways.

Morality exists because social actions are patterned and those patterns go on to have a life of their own outside individual agency. It's not that we need a tribe to survive. Anywhere people live together, their actions feed into the larger pattern of expectations and normative sanctions against individuals. Morality exists because people act in accordance with the roles and expectations that they have within the group that they exist. Morality would be non-existent in the abstract, hypothetical case of an individual being born in and living in isolation their entire life because morality is always about social action--that is action that takes place within the context of a community of people (even as small as an individual family).