What was the reasoning behind the lack of morals humans have had in the past compared to now?

What was the reasoning behind the lack of morals humans have had in the past compared to now?

People always had compassion, but many times their environments completely blinded them to their ability to care about others.

People have been made more domesticated now. In the western world at least. The chings deep fry puppy dogs alive and mexican drug cartels skin people alive.

Cruel environments breed cruel people

Life was short, disease was rampant, misery was everywhere, why not be a cunt?

I see you haven't watched much footage from Syria, Iraq and Ukraine lately.

Swiss people eat cats & dogs

Canadians & Nordics beat baby seals to death for fun

Steven Pinker wrote a giant book called Better Angles of Our Nature.

Pretty much, less scarcity, a state capable of being a third party mediator in conflict, institutions, and finally this social theory about ethical circles. Pretty much people evolved to cooperate but also to compete. We have the ability to include larger and larger groups in our ethical circle, such as allies, coreligionists, etc.

Modern liberal culture (as in Enlightenment Humanism, not "left liberal) encourages the creation of a large ethical circle that includes the whole world except in cases of self defense.

Oh yes, you're "so" morally superior than these people by your merit of nothing.
It's because the state commits all the violence that we need for us.

War photography and the telegraph changed how nations saw war. Instead of being lied to about glory and valour they saw that war was especially in modern times becoming a slaughterhouse mixed in with disease and filth.

The glory days of men in brilliant uniforms marching in formations had been shattered by machine guns mowing down hundreds of men in minutes and artillery that could fire miles behind the battle front. The reality of modern war where you could die at any moment for no reason from unstoppable shrapnel changed the mindset of war being about valour and morale and showed the bloody disturbing act of war for what it was.

Forensic archeology and observations of remaining hunter gatherers both converge on about 20-25% of adult men dying violent deaths and that attempted genocide of another band, rape, and torture were incredibly common.

The West from 1914-1945 was less violent in terms of number of people killed.

The intensity and number of active wars has trended down since the 1500s.

This is bullshit. Life for most of man's history was brutish and short, war was a mere extension of that.

Oh because humanity was way less stable back then you clueless monkey.

leaded gas

IIRC 1/4th of hunter gatherer men died of violence

And about 1/10th of agricultural men died from violence

Life sucked ass

Fake pic

There's nothing wrong with eating cats or dogs. Boiling them alive, however, is very wrong

Elaborate

Modern low crime rates in the West and heavily Western influenced nations, along with workers' rights, are blessings. Unfortunately, we don't cherish them and shit on the West as the most violent, imperialist, evil force ever while opening the gates to a larger number of migrants than we can probably assimilate to our way of life in so short a time.

Very sad.

It's not for fun. The seal hunt is a way of life for people.

Also people who know nothing about fur don't understand it's literally one of the best insulators for heat. many animals have waterproof or resistant furs too which are expensive and industrially toxic to make compared to harvesting an animal "fur machine".

Fuck off Noah

>Canadians
You mean dirty snow niggers in Nunavut

People don’t quite grasp just how much effort it took to create the level of peace we have now. Shit, even medieval times had casual violence that would make a Detroit nigger shudder. Western civilization is flawed, but at least we’re not fucking eating each other anymore. And we convinced most of the world not to as well (for the most part).

In a recent trip to china I've seen more people walking their dogs as pets (dozens of times) than actually seeing a dog on a menu on any restaurant (never). Nice meme.

lead poisoning made everyone cranky, there were other sources of lead too

There’s some shills out there with an anti-Chinese agenda. They recycle the same 4-5 news stories from over 6 years ago and use key phrases like “insectoid” and “amoral”. Then they accuse you of being part of some weird internet defense force for pointing this out.

>Canadians & Nordics beat baby seals to death for fun
How is this immoral? I bet you don't mind burgers or leather.

Why exactly? Do the animals end up differently?

Boiled creatures lose all sensation within a few seconds because their nerve cells die. The animal itself dies within ten seconds. Meanwhile the normal method of killing cattle is dozens of blows to the head. How horrible!

>it's another self rightious dipships looking down on those who came before them episode

>dozens of blows to the head
If the butcher isn't a retard a cattle gun usually doesn't need more than one shot. Afterwards they're bled out

Asians have no souls

>Swiss people eat cats & dogs
Dog is just for poorfags and traditionalists, but cats are fucking delicious. I don't see how this is any different from eating a cow or a pig.

Greater opportunity to engage in mutually beneficial strategies. The environment dictates the rules of the game, when competition is necessary it will favor nonzero competitive strategies to cooperative ones. In short, humans have learned to cooperate on greater scales, expanding the sphere of moral concern to increasingly larger parts of humanity. Globalism casts this net of moral concern into the whole sphere of humanity, while nationalism is a violently hard limitation of it to the construct of "nation." Humanism isn't an ideology but a force of nature, or more accurately a force of humanity, a life stance that is the inevitable result of the human moral instinct to pursue mutually beneficial, constructive relationships with other human beings.

Meaning is only created when it is shared.

Hah , now he says, op.
Op you must realize that in war there are no good guys, there is no crime.
Thoses are perspective of thoses that survive or are not involved.
War never changed.

>morals
>a so called lack of said "morals"
nice spook nerd

>Pic of babies being speared with no evidence to back it up
Better than Islam at least. At least during the fake of Nanking, it wasn't Muslims doing the raping and killing.

>he fell for the "Humans are more moral now" meme

Only when you focus on certain types of morality and when you think you can objectively define the concept of morality and judge all humans could you believe it possible to make the claim that humans are so much more moral now.

There are less violent murders per capita relatively speaking. But the total scale of the violence and destruction only grows. This post WWII era has tricked people in comfy western countries into believing that everyone is safe and secure now. It is simply not true. Just because the conflict and death has not caught up to the rapid human exponential birth rates doesn't mean the killing is over. Its just waiting for better reasons.

Wait till the environment catches up and swings back on our asses. Then we will see human morals in action.

There is a difference between the lack of morals of past ages, motivated by war, culture, ignorance etc..

in modern the western world had the will to change some precepts due to the historical context, fix mistakes of the past, be a good boy blah blah ..

And now days , we are literally rotten, if we don't live a violent life we search videos on the internet, yo Google some niggers being massacred in Brazil, Islamic state executions, third world atrocities whatever you want, information to your computer makes you a potential psychopath.

You simply don't give a fuck

Of course it is. But brainwashed people still like to use it as a reference for war crimes, while there are plenty real documents to refer to.

>Implying niggers with rusty AKs and Mexicans with black market M16s and machetes can do anything but die in droves against the combined arms tactics of modern militaries

Actually I was implying that the organized western militaries would act exactly the same and ravage the people they used to protect in order to get needed resources for their families.

Its not gonna be force A vs force B. Its force A = force B when the shit hits the fan. Western militaries will become feudalistic caste based resource grabbers and use their force to set up their families in power.

And YES they will mow down Africans and Mexicans like a grass lawn on a Saturday morning.