Can Morality be affected by Genetics?

Can Morality be affected by Genetics?

The debate regarding the origin of morals has involved the theologians, philosophers and various other categories of people for over a millennium now. For the period lately, it has become the empirically addressable just like various other issues that were formerly addressed merely with the support of armchair rumination and along with the mixed approaches that involve the application of genetic, modern neuroscience, anthropology, psychology and a lot more disciplines. With respect to all these approaches, there has been a naturalistic structure emerging in order to elaborate upon the biological origins of moral behaviour. With this viewpoint, the element of morality is neither transcendent nor it is objective- it is rather the culture-dependent and pragmatic expression that has arose from a series of the neural systems which have developed to permit the navigation of the complicated human social systems. This paper will thus, discuss upon the fact that the morality is affected by the genetics within a human system.

The term 'Morality' has been derived from the Latin moralities which refer to "character, manner, and proper behavior in its literal meaning. Morality is basically concerned with the differentiating of decisions, intentions, and actions between the right (good) and wrong (bad). Ethics is the fundamental philosophy of morality which is obtained from the moral which is taught or practiced in a moral code (Harenski; Antonenko; Shane; Kiehl, 2010). The concept of morality might also be considered particularly synonymous with rightness or goodness. The modern morality has developed through a process which is tied in a close manner with the Socio cultural evolution of different peoples of humanity. According to some of the evolutionary biologists, specifically socio biologists, it is believed that the evolutionary forces that are acting on the individual level produce morality within a human being and it also work on the group level with the help of group selection. While, it has also been believed by many of the other socio biologists that the evolution of morality occurred due to an array of behaviors that comprise of morality since they make the potential reproductive or survival benefits available to the people. The human beings ultimately evolved the emotions that are "pro-social" and comprise of the guilty of empathic feelings in order to respond towards such moral behaviors. As a result, other biologists argue that the truly altruistic and moral instincts are developed by the human beings (Rhodes, 1999).

We assume the concept of morality to be the sets of ideologically-driven and self-perpetuating behaviors that allow and encourage for the human cooperation. It is contended by the biologists that from elephants to ants, and all kinds of other social animals, have been able to modify and reform their attitudes and behaviors, through restricting the immediate selfishness for the purpose of improving upon their own evolutionary fitness. Though the human morality has been complex and sophisticated in comparison with the other animals, it is necessarily a natural fact that has been evolved for restricting ...