Why will individuals obey rules without governance, if people "suck" (<– bad political philosophy) and are sociopathic (yes, about 6%)? Some people will aways break all the rules if they think it benefits them.
Humans are a species of chimp. Our emotional yearnings are largely the result of the evolution that made us who we are. The moral preferences even of majorities don't indicate what's true.
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Moral preferences are among the important facts, however. They are not disjoint from the set of consequential facts.
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The fact that you have moral preferences is a fact about how a brain is wired up as a consequence of innate traits and indoctrination. It is not different from believing in the Holy Trinity. But is it indicative about how society or other parts of the physical universe work?
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