I'm not sure how evidence (secreting it) points to an intuition in another's head, since you are talking about intuition helping discern a higher truth.
You have a lot of intuits!
I think your case is better here, but still it is equivocal. I could equally argue someone who violates a code
is doing so to avoid the social consequences of doing it. Dahmer possibly was not wrestling against his intuitive sense
of a higher and virtuous moral code when he was eating the corpse of his gay lover in the house instead of on a park bench.
And thank you also. Been fun. But now I am procrastinating. At least its friday.
Have a good Friday.
Biologist Richard Dawkins asserts that all altruism and morality can be explained by genetics and evolution.
The idea has merit.
But I am not sure If morality can be boiled down simply to biochemistry.
I did say that a universal moral consciousness probably exists whether one chooses to act on it or not. Mass murderers have deviant brains, which do not appear capable of guilt, and may be incapable of acting in accordance with a moral code.
Fierce moral integrity is otherwise almost universally admired. Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King will always be admired in a way that Bill Gates and Paul McCartney never will be. These days, even die hard Republicans express admiration for the steadfast morality and basic goodnesses of Jimmy Carter.
The philosophers of the axial age - Plato, Jesus, Zarathustra, Sidartha Guatauma, Confucius - were all teaching and articulating the same (in some cases, identical) metaphysical moral vision, even though they had never met each other and lived in different parts of the world.
To me, that all seemingly goes a little bit beyond biochemistry and genetics. There seems to be an intuitive recognition, an innate knowledge of a universal moral imperative.
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