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Originally Posted by DJ FC
Perhaps authority has arrisen naturally. I mean, certainly that's the case... right? We've evolved to have some rule over others. And it's pretty difficult to say anything is objectively true when it runs counter to millions of years of evolution.
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Why? First off, we haven't really evolved as a species much since the first actual humans; we are still biologically the same thing, it's just a matter of when that first fully formed human existed. We evolved
into the human species, not
as the human species. I think as society has been driven to the point of increasing the time and energy available towards abstract thought, the closer we get towards understanding what it means to behave ethically.
So while we can't overly condemn the past for being unethical, we can, to a large degree, look back and realize our understanding was more flawed and is moving towards less flawed with time.