No, but to suggest that this caused an evolutionary pressure for behaviour (which eventually causes moral emotions) seems quite plausible.
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In this case, our moral emotions, instincts and thoughts reflect objective moral truths, albeit through an indirect means.
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They don't reflect "objective moral truths." They reflect evolutionary pressures.
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Human needs are about as close as we get to objective truths. The universe doesn't care what we do.
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What of external, existential threats? Can't a democratic morality make a nation vulnerable to subjugation.
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Not sure how this relates. Don't partic want to discuss the merits of various forms of democracy, tbh. Nothing to do with objective truth
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The statement was on "democratic morality," which captures your brand of morality succinctly.
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Not me. I'm a humanist. That is my morality.
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At the institutional level you believe that laws should reflect the democratic consensus on morality, no?
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I say that laws do reflect majority values. A democracy is only as good as the values of the majority.
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