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[HydrogenBond]

One can analyze the multi-logic of morality in a general way.

Morality tries to enhance group fitness. These moral group laws can be rational or irrational. Individual choices are more variable and can enhance group fitness or can cause group fitness to degenerate. The personal morality can also be rational and irrational. Personal morality can copy the group morality, parts of the group, or be totally individual. It can be a blend of rational and irrational. This gives us four basic combinations relative to morality of group-individual dynamics; rational-rational, rational-irrational, irrational-rational, irrational-irrational.

There is rational group morality that maintains groups fitness. For example, killing is usually considered immoral because if it was presented as an option for individual free choice (remove the immoral association) group fitness would degenerate as more people kill each other with irrational whims, impulses and logical premeditation. This is rational morality since we could run an experiment and the result would be predictable in terms of group fitness. Most rational people can see the logic in this, without an experiment, and will include this rational morality into their individual morality to get rational-rational.

There is irrational group morality that helps maintains group fitness, even against rational free choice. One example is the control of language, such as swearing and four letter words. These words affect some people at an irrational or conditioned level even though the audio noise does no physical harm. Unlike the killing example, based on physical affect, this is subjective cause and affect. Most people see this flaw in human nature and reason we may need to protect the two groups of irrational people from themselves. This last choice could be irrational-rational morality.

Lying is considered immoral. This is rational morality, since communication presents data points, with the truth, valid reality data points. Lying would add bad data or made up data points to intellectual curves. It can make people detach from reality, which could affect group fitness. If lying was done in science, the functional impact would be obvious when these new curves are used for practical applications. Individual free choice may benefit by adding bad data to truth curves. This would be rational-irrational.

White lies are not always considered immoral, based on group subjective morality. If the truth can hurt, sometimes adding bad data points makes a new subjective curve that makes people feel better and improves group adhesion. This is good irrational-irrational morality.