The moral issue is about what you knew (because evolutionary moral cues were informing you), independently of other views.tuxbox said:I now agree with you on the Vegan issue, however, the father letting his daughter die, would not be considered wrong in certain cultures. Just as stoning women in the Middle East is not considered immoral in those cultures. Where is my logic going wrong here?
Perhaps the father felt it was wrong to let his daughter die, but would have suffered a similar fate for trying to save him, ie., death.
Perhaps the family of the person being stoned to death also felt that killing in that manner was morally wrong, but would not intervene for reasons the father in the first example did not.
The are countless war anecdotes where soldiers are ordered to kill non-combatants indiscriminately, and even deliberately. Their penalty for disobeying the order would be death. Except for religious fanatics who score virgins in heaven for killing innocents, we all know that such killings are morally reprehensible.
From a biological perspective the answer would be found through your capacity to empathise with the subject, which is easiest done by putting yourself in their shoes.