Steven Pinker on Evolutionary Psychology: Morality

Some believe that morality was not something we invented but instead a truth about the universe. All though I would like to believe this that we are somewhat naturally moral thinking animals I truly doubt it. Animals are brutal, the phrase "your an animal" would never have come about if there was no truth to it. Animals act on instinct, the instinct to do whatever it takes to survive, and as humans I believe we have this same instinct.

What I do believe is that we invented morality as an alternative to chaos . That someone or some society somewhere down our ancestorial lineage decided that we should instead follow rules of engagement, that we would survive better that way. But I am not pointing towards religious like morals but to universal morals. These morals might have came about by the meme theory, it states that this behavior was in fact seen as beneficial by other people and it caught on not that it was somehow passed down from parent to offspring through genes. It is better not to kill others because you my find them as an asset later on, in group hunting, scavenging, reproduction and labor.