Moral systems are interlocking mechanisms that regulate self-interest to enable cooperation

Evidence

Moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to supress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 466

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of ‘moral systems’ as interlocking sets of mechanisms regulating self-interest.
• XREF: This definition parallels the reader’s framework: the fumi-e trampling is an ‘institution’ and ‘practice’ within a moral system deliberately deployed to suppress a rival moral system. — connects to: Moral discourse begins from individual interests, then asks after equal interests — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 72; Binding moral constraints depend on social integration, not abstract principle — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1648; Healthy living systems circulate collaborative intelligence that fails when beings see themselves as superior. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1763