Prefer Evolved To Folk Morality

Individuals often have good reasons to indulge in delusions, such as re superstition, astrology, religion, or their own personal destiny. But society usually has less of a reason to indulge them in its policy analysis. For example, we shouldn’t be funding larger institutions of research to elaborate astrological theories. And even if people find value in their folk physics, folk econ, or folk psych, researchers shouldn’t be working to extend these frameworks, though we might want to understand them to better understand behavior.A dramatic example of this is folk morality, which says:There are general stable moral rules saying how everyone everywhere should behave. (Though some depend on context.) It would be best if everyone knew them, and tried hard to obey them, regardless of how well local societies rewarded that. Our stories tell us that the universe rewards such obedience, stories we believe, even if we say otherwise. The universe has been slowly revealing moral truth to us,…