Q&A: Morality
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Morality
Question
Hello Rabbi Michi,
Yuval Noah Harari writes in his book that morality exists among animals too, even before the development of humans, and that it is not something unique to human beings—that is, it is an evolutionary process. Could this process perhaps be the divine morality to which a person is subject?
Answer
Yuval Noah Harari does not have the faintest idea what he is talking about on this issue, just as on many other issues. Animals do not have morality, and morality is not applicable to them. They have cooperative behavior. That is something entirely different. He assumes that human beings too are animals (materialism and determinism), and therefore in his conceptual world morality and cooperativeness are synonymous terms.