Moral obligations require overriding force that natural selection doesn’t explain

Evidence

Second, even where behaving morally requires fairness (marking exams, for example) and the motive is right, morality requires further things. An obligation to be fair must be recognized as over-riding almost everything else, so that not meeting the obligation justifies significant sanctions. Could fairness becoming an obligation be a result of natural selection? The article does not address the issue. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 512

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Big God / moral-enforcement framework — obligation and sanction are the enforcement layer natural selection may not supply. — connects to: Moral fairness may itself have been shaped by natural selection. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 12; Moral-evolution research should follow linguistics in doing descriptive work before theorizing origins. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 473; Moral obligations derive from objective ideality, not from society or individual will — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 356 (+1 more)

Related

• Moral fairness may itself have been shaped by natural selection. (similarity 0.87)
• Moral obligations derive from objective ideality, not from society or individual will (similarity 0.83)
• Human morality may rest on a general normativizing capacity, not a dedicated fairness module. (similarity 0.82)
• Can we say that we have, in principle at least, the same reasons for meeting our legal obligations that we have for meeting our moral obligations? (similarity 0.82)
• People feel moral obligations they never actually agreed to. (similarity 0.81)
• Morality is an evolved sense of fairness, not a late intellectual achievement (similarity 0.81)
• Fairness-based morality is uniquely human despite similar selective conditions in animals. (similarity 0.80)
• Morality serves a self-directed ego function of constructing moral identity. (similarity 0.80)
• Harm prohibitions are as central to morality as fairness (similarity 0.80)
• Human moral behavior may originate in mere conformity to convention, not genuine morality. (similarity 0.79)
• Duty-based moralities subordinate the individual to maintenance of social norms. (similarity 0.79)
• Human fairness means overriding merit to aid the needy. (similarity 0.79)
• Moral consistency can be learned rule-following rather than an innate disposition (similarity 0.78)
• Nothing in society is eternal, so moral standards must be revised (similarity 0.78)
• Humans need legends to bear responsibility for un-chosen deeds (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Moral obligations derive from objective ideality, not from society or individual will #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 356
• Moral rules cannot be created or altered by deliberate human enactment #complicates (0.75) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 443