Most people in the western world are Darwinists. What has always puzzled me is that so many of them seem to think that evil is part of human nature. Most forms of evil have a negative effect on the chances of survival of all parties involved, so it’s not very likely that they could survive an evolutionary process. And when they assume that morality is a social invention… do they really believe that society can create new feelings, like guilt, moral indignation, thirst for revenge?

   But biologists in general fail to give you an acceptable explanation for mental human properties. So I will start out with a Darwinist explanation of morality.

The origin of ethics

   When animals want to organize themselves all they can think of is following a leader. Once a species has come into being that has developed a high enough level of communication so as to make it possible for individuals to make plans together, a far better organization model comes in sight. The group will have the best chances of survival if everybody’s interest is taken equally into account. So a very strong instinct develops to see an equal in everyone you get in touch with; a sense of moral indignation when another fails to treat another as an equal; a sense of guilt when you realize you did that; and the thirst for revenge when a person fails to see it, the “an eye for a eye” principal forcing people in the position of the victim when they have failed to imagine themselves in that position.