ludimagister

"When we combine an evolutionary account of ethical beliefs with the conception of Darwinian theory as a “universal acid,” the result is moral nihilism. If all apparently purposive processes, states, events, and conditions are in reality the operation of a purely mechanical substrate neutral algorithm, then as far explanatory tasks go, the only values we need attribute to biological systems are instrumental ones. An evolutionary account of moral belief will not only explain ethics but it will explain it away."

— Tamler Sommers and Alex Rosenberg, Darwin’s Nihilistic Idea: Evolution and the Meaninglessness of Life