Risottia wrote:Bleckonia wrote:I am an atheist, but I still have morals.
I guess people are born with a moral compass and naturally know what's right and wrong. Also, if it hurts someone (and it's not self defence), then that's immoral.
Do you? I would say so. I think morality has more to do with nurture and society (hence, more local), while ethics is derived from empathy (hence, more "universal" throughout humanity).
I imagine it's more parallel evolution than empathy - i.e. the evolution of cultures, with codes that end up serving the same purposes, so tend to resemble each other fairly closely.