{"id":561,"date":"2012-12-29T18:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saravanan.org\/?p=561"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T09:53:20","slug":"who-gave-you-you-your-morals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saravanan.org\/who-gave-you-you-your-morals\/","title":{"rendered":"Who gave You Your Morals?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the last post<\/a>, we saw SCARF model<\/a>\u00a0proposed by David Rock, identifying five strong human motivations (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness & Fairness). \u00a0The last post also discussed Status. \u00a0In this post, we will discuss the Fairness, or morality.<\/p>\n The most important paradigm shift on morality is this:<\/p>\n Fairness and other morals are hard coded in our genes!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The conventional belief is that the moralities have been given to us by religions. \u00a0But the more we understand how humans and other animals work, the more it becomes clear that<\/p>\n Religions have simply documented the moral values that we have inherited through our genes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Unfortunately, religions have done a poor job of documenting morality. \u00a0Given that most of the religious teachings are hundreds or thousands of years old, they suffer from two disadvantages:<\/p>\n\n