It's interesting to think about... most basic morality arises logically from socially beneficent behavior, so there's a baseline of morality that is more-or-less inherently practical, in that it ensures the well-being of "you & your fellows". & then there's a lot of corollary stuff arising from that-- or arising from associations generated by correlative imagery / behavior to that basic morality... some of this becomes broadly societal, but the higher levels of moral refinement I think are more particular to individuals, defining their inner worlds, & ultimately the variations in their behavior..
I think abstract cultural morality, in order not to become harmful, needs to be kept simple as well as periodically renewed somehow... throughout history you can observe that as cultures become more complex, & specifically as societies are stratified into different levels of privilege stemming from social function, which eventually become fixed & dependent on one's place of birth, the morality gets skewed toward abstraction-- usually there develop classes of people who dedicate themselves to systematizing / doctrinizing morality, & then it becomes more about systems philosophy & politics... in short, I think 'morality' as an abstraction-- sometimes in individuals, but particularly in societies (& I usually see societies to an extent as macrocosms of individuals)-- is harmful the more complicated & self-enclosed, hence absolute, it is.
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