Interbane wrote:Morality only applies to the behavior of humans. We don't judge natural disasters as evil(unless we're the sort of atheist that blames an evil god for natural disasters). We also can't blame our universe for being Nazist.
This may be a foolish question but why does morality only apply to humans? The book on Bonobo's,(which I haven't read) is subtitled "the search for humanism among the primates". This is suggestive but I'm not sure what they actually found,not having read it.
The theory seems unfalsifiable since whatever had "fitness" survived and natural selection decided.
As ant is saying I think,natural selection is neither conscious or moral but merely selects whatever is "fittest"
So if some animals are vegetarian and others fierce predators there is no explanation beyond this was selected by blind nature.
A cat may play with a mouse before killing it.I'm not saying there's a moral sense beyond they seem to enjoy playing.
They seem quite proud of their successful killing and far from ashamed of it.
Quite often the mouse escapes due to this propensity and it's not the most efficient approach for this reason.
Nonetheless cats have survived.It does seem a bit odd that their behaviour has this sometimes counterproductive element.
I think the rationale is that playing sharpens their skills. Of course the already skilful ones do this too.