Evolved Morality, Not Folk Morality

Moral rules should be treated as variable cultural products shaped by cultural evolution rather than fixed, universally discoverable prescriptions. Experts and policymakers should therefore evaluate moral claims by asking how norms emerged, what selection pressures produced them, and whether current cultural-evolutionary processes are producing adaptive or maladaptive outcomes. — If adopted, this framing would shift public argumentation away from appeals to timeless moral rules toward empirical assessment of how norms arise and change, altering policy debate over education, law, and social reform.