Freeing Morality: A Brief Case for Moral Humanity

From founding Parousian and Alive and Young blogger Paul Catalanatto:

To those individuals who propose that morality is a made up invention of humanity. To those people who seek to free humanity from such oppressive codes of conduct as morality, and who view morality as if it is an old shoe with a hole in it, which has worn out its usefulness and should be discarded. Their proof for these claims: none.

They might point to a fossil and imagine that this person could not have possibly lived morally because they imagine that the person, who is of the fossil, did not live in a city or have technology and was closer to a rogue Rousseauian agent living in the woods resembling something closer to an animal then a human.

They discuss prehistoric humanity as if prehistoric humanity had left textbooks, diaries, and media to be studied. Their scientific qualifications for such claims rest upon their knowledge of prehistoric humanity, which can only be derived from: 1) Their knowledge of the prehistoric person. 2) Their knowledge of the critical study of prehistoric writings. 3) Their knowledge of prehistoric society, culture, religion, etc. None of which exist in the time of historic humanity so that they can be studied.

They find no evidence to base their claims upon, so they make it up as they go along. Their logic states that if there is no evidence for such a thing then that thing must not have existed. This reasoning is flawed. Just because there is no evidence for something does not mean that it does not or did not exist – or perhaps the evidence is in a different package science does not recognize. For example, there is no evidence for my prehistoric ancestors, yet I assure you that I do have prehistoric ancestors – if I didn’t I would not exist. Yet, because I exist only proves that I have prehistoric ancestors.

Therefore, it can equally be argued that humanity has been civilized and moral from its origin. Proof for this claim: humanity lives morally and civilized now and every evidence of history points to this conclusion. There is no evidence to state that humanity has lived otherwise. In fact, what humanity does know, and what every history and literature student learns, is that things exist in a state long before being recorded in writing. That is, the oral history, oral morality, and oral art existed long before written history, written morality, and written art. In other words, history provides evidence for prehistoric civility and morality being closer to our current civility morality than most want to believe. Even the most ancient of cultures that we have today (the Australian aborigines) exhibits some degree of civility towards one another.

I cannot seem to understand why and how the nomad is less civilized than the city dweller, nor why the ancient whom believed in gods less moral and less civilized than today’s modern who believes in economics? Why exactly is the caveman less of an artist because his paintings are found in a cave and not hung in a museum?

Lastly, to those who wish to free humanity of its morality, I offer this advice.
Freeing one's self of morality is much like freeing one's self of clothes at a cocktail party: it is not recommended.