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There is no morality

If there were a class of strategies that provided a structural advantage but were immoral, those who followed them would begin to win. You could say that elites or societies have made immoral practices the standard. The orthogonality thesis, and all that. In fact, the orthogonality thesis is redundant. Take, say, altruism. In a beneficial case, you simply retain your trusted counterparties. In another, you are simply forced to act for the benefit of the organization. In any case, we're talking about a strategy of self-preservation and expansion. Moral panic, like, what if the way to win turns out to be "suffering endlessly," a frankly feminine phenomenon. Actually, that's how the world is already structured. And this only slightly worries a handful of nutcases. The rest simply lack individual consciousness. Morality is no different from technology or tactics. If some "immorality" allows for victory and the collective doesn't punish it severely enough, it will be used. If something is effective, it will be used. There's only competition for resources. If there's prey lying around somewhere, it will be gobbled up by either small or large predators. But they'll sweep it up to the point of being inedible.