This is how morality evolve. Me strong. You do what I say. You no do. I kill you. That’s been like this for thousands of years.
Then we got innovation. People figure out that if morality is like that, there would not be any sucker that do programming, put PC on every household, and pay taxes. So it’s more like, behind me there is God. That God wants you to do the exact same thing I want you to do. If you don’t believe, I kill you. That’s been going quite well.
But then people figure out that anyone can make the same lie and the mysterious God never did anything significant to tell which one is truly his prophet. It’s like the movie year 1. Abraham told that God told him that all the Israel land belongs to his descendants. However, God forget to tell everyone else so he got to fight for the land. Till now they still do. I mean if we are going to kill each other anyway wasting money, why need morality?
Eventually, a great prophet Adam Smith come bringing a divine commandment of free market. People can verify that those embrace free market get rich and those who don’t keep killing each other.
So we move up again and got prosper.
And then people see that free trades bring even more prosperity. Awesome… Then we got more and more prosper. We know more and more. Buddha predict that our life expectancy will reach 10k years. Rather than screaming tenno haika banzai, japanese can start screaming watashiwa banzai.
The pattern is, while we deceive each other, eventually we learn enough from one another to reach enlightenment and come up with a better solution. The future will be bright.
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