Our moral system is extremely bad. Here are the facts

My atypical stance on human morality is given by books that are the best and the worst I have ever read. What kind of books? Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology.

While the first one may be considered as a pseudoscience even though it bears a rational core and has thousands of rational claims that cannot be proven (some perhaps modeled), but are correct in a facto-graphic way, the other one is a robust exact science which has a lot of truths that the second is deriving from.

Why the best and the worst? The best because they revealed human nature as it is and the worst because of the actual nature. Horror movies are like fairy tales for children compared to this.

Homo sapiens are completely selfish, highly territorial (therefore apartments, buildings, houses), vindictive (if someone does this to my children, I would kill him – somehow uncaring if this is done to the rest) intriguing social interactions how to gain scarce resources (food, water, shelters, fire, tools and weapons), and sexual partners. They are trying to gain social status (leadership, therefore), knowledge and skills, build social alliances and so on.

I used to hold high regard for morality and was trying to be as moral as I could have. I had hit hard and realized that people just say they are moral but are not moral basically in any way. But this is the past. I appreciated the pilots who fought in WW2 as moral, not realizing their path was an evolutionary one or by-product of evolution (their percentile on the Gaussian curve (common morality) could be varying).

Medal awards for those involved in senseless wars, ideologies, imprisoning of presidents, prime ministers, and generals, hanging those who had imprisoned them afterward. Senseless us/them dichotomy.

The background super-rich groups have their own spying agencies or use the official one to spy on each other to gain wealth and power, politicians blame each other, and scare people with scaremongering stuff. Endless civil wars with their own causes and worldwide patron-client system. Still moral? Yes, I believed in morality even after reading these books. How come? I have had this dual view because rejecting common morality would have meant being very weird.

And as you guess I started not to give a damn. It somehow led me to moral nihilism which is, of course, completely wrong.

The best (and the only system deemed as moral) can be such a moral system that produces an infinite number of individuals (or consciousnesses modeled by mathematics) that produces such an infinite number of events that create the most ecstatic moments. I don’t care whether to call it utilitarianism or whatever it is. Does the current moral system look like we have it now? Absolutely not.

I am not saying nothing is better than what we have now. Moral actions A don’t lead to event B that could alter C results. I must emphasize that human actions (moral system) are extremely complex. Person A could have averted divorce (not his own) that would alter the psychological state of the affected children that they therefore didn’t have their own children which ruined the lives of 4 people (that didn’t exist), but also saved one person because one of the children would have otherwise become a murderer. Properly allocated resources from one family would lead to more people being born in another family. GDP would be given how to increase happiness. But these were just examples.

So if you criticize me for deviating from the common moral system, try to understand that it is not my fault that we die in car accidents that could have been prevented by self-driving cars back in the ages. It is not my fault that we didn’t develop AI centuries ago to be freed from working. It is not my fault we are animals. It is not my fault human morality evolved in the African savanna and served our ancestors to something. It is not my fault morality doesn’t serve to higher purpose, common good or justice. It is not my fault ideologies served our ancestors to something and that the super-rich try to abuse them.

What do you want? It is just an animalistic morality!