Morality tracks benefit and harm to the human organism

I believe all things good for the human organism and its biological needs are morally correct, all things bad for the organism are morally incorrect, and anything else is not a moral issue.

Confidence

Medium

What could disprove it

Show a coherent moral framework that ignores organismic benefit and harm yet produces clearer, more benevolent guidance for how people should treat one another.

Current support

Moral confusion often comes from treating taste, tradition, or taboo as moral law.

Grounding morality in life and harm clarifies what is actually at stake in ethical disputes.

Sample: Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory — harm/care dimension recognized across cultures as core moral concern tied to organismic welfare.

Supporting resources

Studies, data, books, and references that help express and test this belief.

BookStanford Encyclopedia — Ethical naturalism ↗

Philosophical tradition grounding moral facts in human nature and flourishing.

StudyJonathan Haidt — Moral Foundations Theory ↗

Empirical research on harm/care as universal moral foundation across cultures.