It's funny to think that genetics traces us to the apes and before. To think that in our sophisticated world we are at heart not much more than a simplistic animal programmed to act and react according to preemptory signals causing us to behave as we do, flight or fight being just one of them. So much for 'free will' or decision making based on some moral imperative. We are animalistic,, craving with animalistic desire those things denied us, continuously struggling between society norms and the craven urges that all animals enjoy.
Such is one view of the dilemma faced in life, a continual struggle between right and wrong those arbitrary values which change from generation to generation. For most of us it's a journey in which conformity is no big deal, our proclivity is simply one of not wishing to create waves or cause a fuss, a simple process of getting on with everyone and not risking to be seen as radical. Those thoughts of rationalising ones own stance on matters which don't immediately effect our lives is thought unproductive and a waste of time. Time should be spent accumulating, not thoughts and an opinion but rather baubles to hang on our dim exterior to gain acceptance.
The sound of our voice raised in desperation at the iniquity we see all around is not based on the notion of ethical judgement, a notion few if any animals seem to have or the philosophical reasoning which takes in our recognition of each other as being one, a closeted oneness in which survival is bought not by the speed of the blow but by the thought that blows are bad.
Our survival on this earth can only be achieved by collaboration, to collaborate on gas emissions preventing global warming, or the willingness to forego some of our desires in a pandemic to prevent the virus spreading. Perhaps a new form of government which doesn't ally itself with a particular cohort of the population but sees the benefit of treating everyone as the same and avoiding, by diktat if necessary, the nauseating discrepancies in wealth and earnings within society, would be a good start.
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