Morality is really interesting because its, again, a cheat. Just like eating other animals for an easier way of getting compounds, morality emerged with higher cognitive power because somewhere along the evolutionary line, human brain structure began shifting towards more teamwork oriented thinking. Working with other organisms of your species instead of just fending for yourself allowed you to have better survival chances: you could kill bigger prey, share food, have a higher rate of defense, have a less chance of being picked off by a predator. That good/bad chemical system realized this, and so doing actions that make others WANT to work with you makes you literally feel good, while doing actions that makes others NOT want to work with you makes you feel bad.

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