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Our intuitions are systematically biased. Evolutionary psychology explains how our moral intuitions and the rationalizations they spawn have been shaped by millennia of natural selection to maximize the inclusive fitness of our genes and not to track the welfare of other sentient beings impartially conceived. Many human cultures have found nothing intuitively wrong with aggressive warfare, slavery, wife beating, infanticide or female genital mutilation. Ultimately, folk morality is a doomed enterprise as hopeless as folk physics. A mature posthuman ethics, I'd argue, must be committed to the well being of all sentient life; and mature posthuman technology offers the means to deliver that commitment. | h+ Magazine

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