Evolving morality

Scientists who study morality are good at explaining how people make judgements about harm and fairness, but they still struggle to explain the feeling of awe, transcendence, patrotism, joy and self-sacrifice, which are not ancillary to most people's moral experiences, but central. The evolutionary approach also leads many scientists to neglect the concept of individual responsibility and makes it hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle towards goodness, not as a means, but as an end itself.

Can we understand how a person makes a decision? Is it possible for a person to make a decision that is always wrong? Or makes a decision that is always right? How do we achieve that consistency? To comfort ourselves, we always say, "you win some and you lose some." There seems to be no absolute right or absolute wrong. We needed relativity to explain ourselves in what we do.

Apparantly, by doing so, we explain away the fact that we do not have any deficiecy. In the evolutionary sense, changing to be the perfect being.

While riding on this evolutionary thinking, we also start to be clouded by understanding that may be wrong in the first place? If it were right, we would be evolving towards better humanity. Yet, we seemed to be moving away from the perfect right.

We are struggling not just to find the answer, but also to find the way that we should direct ourselves.

The argument goes on and on. It makes us wonder if it were possible for a guide, instruction manual written to guide the human conscience?

Given the size of the world, we could have already arrived at the answer. The problem could be denying it rather than to embrace it. Those who deny, will need to search further and may just lead themselves off. Or they could make a big circle in searching and be faced with the same answer they denied in the first place.

Strange. If we found the answer, why do we reject it and suffer?

I don't think morality is evolving towards any direction. It is just circling itself trying to avoid facing the answer that is already there.