Harm prohibitions are as central to morality as fairness

Evidence

Third, fairness is never more than part of morality. For example, prohibitions on inflicting harm without justification are at least as central to morality as an obligation to be fair. Even if an evolutionary account of how we came to have harm norms could be given, it would be quite different from any account that would explain how an obligation to be fair evolved. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 513

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Morality extends beyond fairness among strangers to relational obligations — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 333; Moral psychology broadened fairness-only models to include purity, hierarchy, and coalition domains. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 687; People punish norm violations at personal cost even without direct harm — Ernst Fehr, Third-Party Punishment and Social Norms, 147

Related

• Moral psychology broadened fairness-only models to include purity, hierarchy, and coalition domains. (similarity 0.86)
• Fairness-based morality is uniquely human despite similar selective conditions in animals. (similarity 0.82)
• Society punishes impropriety more harshly than inhumanity (similarity 0.82)
• Deriving fairness from bargaining power threatens to reduce moral norms to mere bargaining. (similarity 0.81)
• Human morality may rest on a general normativizing capacity, not a dedicated fairness module. (similarity 0.81)
• Mutualistic anthropology explains moral anger as an evolved fairness-restoring mechanism (similarity 0.81)
• Morality extends beyond fairness among strangers to relational obligations (similarity 0.80)
• Morality is about fair cooperation, not maximizing welfare. (similarity 0.80)
• Moral obligations require overriding force that natural selection doesn’t explain (similarity 0.80)
• Directly harmed victims punish more strongly than unaffected third parties. (similarity 0.80)
• Morality is an evolved sense of fairness, not a late intellectual achievement (similarity 0.79)
• Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. (similarity 0.79)
• Moralistic punishment of defectors is itself a costly reputational signal. (similarity 0.79)
• Low-cost punishment of norm violators is a uniquely human trait. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Morality extends beyond fairness among strangers to relational obligations #expands (0.80) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 333
• Moral psychology broadened fairness-only models to include purity, hierarchy, and coalition domains. #complicates (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 687
• People punish norm violations at personal cost even without direct harm #corroborates (0.75) — Ernst Fehr, Third-Party Punishment and Social Norms, 147