Cracks in our inherited morality



The social hierarchy we are born into is set. It is the framework to foreground thought. Our approach to it is the greater part of what goes by the name of “morality.” Within it, there are the ever-unstable, perceiver-dependent values assigned to rank movements: maintenance, promotion, and demotion.  Securing independence is an act of self-promotion; losing a disciple is an event that demotes one’s perceived status.  Here we can see one of the many cracks in an inherited morality: what is often consistent within our unconscious behavioral mechanics is yet inconsistent within our conceptual equations -- here for example, we can have an impulse to secure “independence” alongside an obligation not to damage the inherited relationship.

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