Morality is the prime
principle of a human society and it is evident through the behavior of each
individuals living in it. It is this sense of morality that we humans often
praise as a divine attribute but in fact if examined closely morality is only the
byproduct or a necessity in leading a social life and so not a unique quality
only for us, it has been evolving ever since our mammalian or reptilian or even
earlier ancestors found more and more about the advantages of survival in
groups, however as far as we know it has not evolved in a better way in any other
social beings than that in Humans. The development of morality in humans took
shape through their constant efforts to create a prosperous and peaceful social
dwell; thus empathy, selflessness, reciprocation, mutual trust and fairness evolved
as the basic traits that allowed humans to work together against the hardships that
the planet threw at them.
Analyze, update and improve
are the major attributes of Human brain acquired through billions of years of
evolution, this is something the individuals and subsequently the society does
through the course of its life span; it is the essential ingredient that
enriches the future generations. In the course of Human evolution for a span of
approximately 300,000 years their collective effort and intellectual
superiority allowed them to gradually rise above their natural predators and
adverse conditions in the wild and thus eased their mind from the fear for
their life, this favorable condition freed up the mental space which lead to
rational thinking beyond the confined shell of survival and procreation alone. The
sun, moon, day, night, fire, water, wind, rain, earth, sky, ocean etc. were
understood as powerful beings or the act of one for sure. But along the
profound moments of the journey into becoming modern humans we started
questioning the superficial understanding of our surroundings and the natural
phenomena’s. Authoritative, dogmatic, ritualistic, instinctive truths were the
tools that made our survival possible in the wild as an individual observing,
analyzing and understanding might mean being the next meal for the predator,
someone waiting around to find out the true source of the sound coming from
behind the trees would have a lower chance of survival. Yet some have survived
and passed on the spark of curiosity and reasoning, in due time they started questioning
everything around them and started finding answers and soon this led to
questioning primitive traditions and their protective shell called superstition.
As the hammer of science one after the other hit hard on the shell using the chisel
of reason and truth, slowly but steadily a way forward towards the true understanding
is unfolded. It is an irony that the most cherished and profound characteristics
of humans that is socialization which made the survival of our species possible
and paved way to tribes, civilizations, kingdoms, empires and nations is also
the reason behind the irrational behavior of humans. Blindly rejecting the
scientific findings which contradicts one’s personal, religious or traditional
truths and then forcefully preventing the younger generation from accessing the
scientific facts in its factual form by twisting the contents and then
replacing their curiosity with blind faith and belief, all done by simply injecting
medieval doctrines and traditional nonsense into the minds of the children right
from the beginning of their capability to sense something, killing the
reasoning capacity of their brilliant brains and thus averting the advancement
of societies and in itself the evolution of better morality into the future. Glorifying
and pretending the existence of a Utopian past which was never present and adamantly
insisting on the future generation to live by it instead of teaching them to update
and improve will only lead to a result which won’t be glorifying for us humans.
