A month ago I had an overnight realization while considering my own moral incoherences. So I got to this simple conclusion:
Morality is a human evolutionary construct that allow us to evolve into a wider cognitive (less deterministic) level of freedom-responsability.
And the core of the matter is that; morality as such, is a selection mechanism by which we "choose" between 2 options:
- What we Can.
We can choose any behavior with uncontrolled outcomes. Like under the "conditioned conduct" of a any particular species
. (All species share this feature. It gives way to rather random behavioral mutations through long evolutionary periods)
- What we Must.
In order to transit a higher level of freedom and cognitive order, we "must" choose a set of behavoiral rules that results in higher level of organisation and responsability. Without them we fall back into a lower indistinctive set of evolutionary rules.
I know it is simple, but I like I got there by myself so to speak;)
RE: Three forms of morality, master morality, slave morality, and morality between equals (eu-morality)