12 February 2019
Late morning. Kim called and she and Paul are coming over to go out to lunch. She has a call later and you are getting your haircut at Lewis Center at two-thirty. Otherwise, it was a regular day. You both enjoy going out to lunch with family. Earlier you found the article below on Science Alert and as you have been thinking about sociology and moral codes you decided to drop it in. Also, don't forget the social codes of your marsupials as they were more direct than humans are. - Amorella
1128 hours. I think the marsupials are off the table, Amorella.
I understand your perspective, young man. - Amorella
1323 hours. I'll check these rules below.
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These 7 Rules Could Be The Universal Moral Code Shared by Every Culture, Study Finds
PETER DOCKRILL
12 FEB 2019
All the war, conflict, and misery that has beset civilisation for centuries and longer may lead you to think human society is tragically defined by a constant clash of irreconcilable cultures.
Not so, according to a new study, which in fact found startling and optimistic evidence to the contrary: all cultures are actually bound by a common moral code of seven distinct shared rules and behaviours.
Based on a deep analysis of over 600 cultural records from 60 societies around the world – the largest sample ever in this field of study, the researchers say – there is empirically much more that unites us than divides us, in terms of moral values.
"Everyone everywhere shares a common moral code," says anthropologist Oliver Scott Curryfrom the University of Oxford.
"All agree that cooperating, promoting the common good, is the right thing to do."
Delving into a research database on cross-cultural variation called the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF, hosted by Yale University), Curry and fellow researchers sought to explore the theory that morality evolved in human cultures to promote cooperation.
To do so, they scanned for evidence of seven discrete moral behaviours across over 600,000 words of ethnographic accounts.
These cooperative behaviours and rules – the proposed universal moral code – are the following: helping family, helping your group, reciprocating, being brave, deferring to superiors (respect), dividing disputed resources (fairness), and respecting prior possession (property rights).
In their analysis, the team found thatthese seven rules were uniformly considered positive and morally good across the different cultures surveyed – never being construed as morally bad.
Also, the majority of these behaviours were observed in the majority of cultures, and with equal frequency across different regions of the world.
"We conclude that these seven cooperative behaviours are plausible candidates for universal moral rules," the authors write in their paper, "and that morality-as-cooperation could provide the unified theory of morality that anthropology has hitherto lacked."
Out of 962 observations of these principles, there was one rogue exception noted, among the Chuuk society of Micronesia: "to steal openly from others is admirable in that it shows a person's dominance and demonstrates that he is not intimidated by the aggressive powers of others", the researchers note – but found this hawkish trait to be a form of one of the cooperative values (bravery).
That aside, the universal code also means that conduct in opposition to the cooperative behaviours is considered as morally bad: neglecting kin, betraying your group, free-riding (not reciprocating), cowardice, disrespect, unfairness, and theft.
Not every society ranks or prioritises these social norms in the same way, but the fact that they are uniquely considered positive and observed in so many different societies goes a long way to supporting what is known in ethics as moral universalism, at the expense of the contrasting view, moral relativism.
"The debate between moral universalists and moral relativists has raged for centuries, but now we have some answers," Curry says.
"People everywhere face a similar set of social problems, and use a similar set of moral rules to solve them."
In a sometimes scary and divisive world, it's a useful, uplifting thing to keep in mind – a strong reminder of what we have in common, not what we don't.
The findings are reported in Current Anthropology.
https://www.sciencealert.com/these-7-rules-form-a-universal-moral-code-shared-by-every-culture-study-finds
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1736 hours. The 'Findings' above are much more clarified in the 'Current Anthropology' article listed above which I placed on my FB page. Certainly 'What-We-Have-In-Common is a good place to start in real life.
We said it more simply in the three hard-bound Merlyn books. - Amorella
1743 hours. Hmm. Amorella, this sounds much more resentful than a would be Angel might sound. I don't know that the ethics of the Marsupials is so simply stated in Merlyn. I don't remember, and I really don't care. I think the books are online and are free to download if anyone wishes. Marsupials are human-looking aliens with Marsupialian insides. They live on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy. Their civilization is 20,000 years ahead of our own. Overall, they live better than we do, at least I think so. They are not so sure. The three books are full of dark humor if you want to look for it. They are not well written and they could be much better edited. They are not worth anyone's time but my own. You are embarrassing me bring up Merlyn at all, Amorella.
1801 hours. Why are you doing this, Amorella? What you are doing is a fool's errand.
Isn't that what your 'letters to the Rabbi' were, a fool's errand? - Amorella
1804 hours. A shot to the heart, Amorella.
You are arrogant. - Amorella
1808 hours. I am angry, not arrogant. Why do you force me to self-think so critically and so deeply here?
It is for your own good, boy. Post. - Amorella
1811 hours. I have no reason to doubt you, good Amorella. I'll write later.
2218 hours. I've been thinking. The Encounters in Mind blog uses heartanmind and soul. Is this an acceptable assessment?
It is acceptable because the soul is, much as my myself, a Betweener, in context with this blog and the previous one. Passions are essentially heartanmind encapsulated, so to speak, within the soul who speaks when needed. - Amorella
2220 hours. You brought up the Marsupials earlier today I am wondering why? First though, as this blog is about the soul first, or so it seems to me, then perhaps it is the soul the that should pierce the fictional cloud of the alien segments as a study, as it were, to discover if there is a delivered undertow, an unconscious maneuvering, a between the lines unconscious direction of setting, character, plot and theme -- as if the words, the novels, are as a dream that needs to be interpreted section by section, beginning with the future, with humans and alien marsupials meeting for the first time.
You have said yourself, in Encounters in Mind, that the writings were as a dream. You wrote three books in sequence in three years, self-publishing one a year. After which you spent years trying to revise them to make them less complex. You self-published the first revision of book one on line two years ago and never completed the revision of book two. - Amorella
2305 hours. It appears I made another mistake and should have spent my time attempting to interpret what each book said between the lines rather than revise them.
Address the spiritual aspects in each chapter of each book with your soul and myself, the Amorella, to guide you when needed. You have created this mystery for yourself. You are ready for this task of self-discovery if you desire.
2315 hours. This blog turns on its own merits. I am an existential transcendentalist and ever open to see my own faults. In my moral sense this is how one better learns who sheorhe is. You have been a sensible consistent writing guide all these years, Amorella. I trust you as a friendly spirit and moral guide to my heartansoulanmind. I would have never thought to see the works through my soul as well as yourself. This will be a humbling task to discover the errors of heartanmind.
And, soul too, young man -- the human errors, soul is always included. Post. - Amorella
2326 hours. A new adventure awaits, a spiritual adventure into a textual dreamland.
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