I'm sorry it's taken so long to get back to this. I hope the wait hasn't offended you.

Before I go on I'd like to re-iterate that I'm still on the fence on this topic and I'm just playing devil's advocate for the sake of interesting discussion and maybe debate.

I don't think morality is necessary in determining whether or not a threat should be removed. For instance, a wolf snatching a child from a village is a bad actor but morality doesn't factor in. From the wolf's perspective the hunting party that guns it down, either for revenge or simply to remove further threat, would be bad actors. It was only doing what wolves do.

When you say you have an inane sense of right and wrong, do you mean you believe it's something your born with? And do we have a moral compass, per say? Or do we just have a collection of chemical interactions and electrical impulses layered innumerable times and interwoven into what we perceive as such?

There are theories out there that with enough data everything can be predicted, even peoples’ behaviors. The advancement in weather prediction technology seems to support that.

The more data collected across the globe the more predictable the weather becomes. One could posit when the day comes when we’ve seeded the entire stratosphere (or wherever clouds roam) with nanobots we’ll be able to predict months out to the minute.

In closing, however, I’d like to stay on the fence. I came to the conclusion some time ago that there’s a very delicate mix of random and predetermination at play simply because humanity isn’t driving force behind life. The earth itself is a living organism and we’re but one part of it.

I also gravitate toward the idea that we’re more or less a “micro organism” in a recently fertilized embryonic universe and are equivalent to whatever builds the neural network of our own brains in utero. The cycle of life seems pretty consistent to me. I don’t see any reason to doubt it’s the same all the way up. Not to be confused with turtles all the way down, though. 😁

Edit to add: I wonder if the fertilization of a human egg replicates the Big Bang. We know it’s not a case of nothingness to sudden everything, but we have the benefit of an overview. Considering theories on dark matter and other cosmic intellectualism well beyond my comprehension maybe we’re to small to see the nothingness is really something.