Moral Foundations 2

After spending a couple of week looking for a moral foundation, I have found none and many. There is no universal foundation, but after digging around, there are a bunch of concepts, each that can serve as a foundation until something better comes along.

Propagation of the human species was the foundation of old, and then it became propagation of "our" line. But now there are too many humans on this earth, we are producing too much carbon dioxide, and will start to self exterminate soon; note that we are already using CPAP or oxygen enrichment machines for breathing. The old will die off sooner, and with them, goes much information. Oh well, I am old now. The society will turn mean in its later stages, as they realize there is no real future. There are already many nasty people in this world. The end is coming soon through disintegration of society, here in North America and Western Europe, aka the second and first world.

Economics, energy, use of resources, people: these things cannot grow in a finite world. We are beyond the carrying capacity of the earth. We are living in the overpopulation before the great die off, the evolutionary selection process is already underway. It cannot be stopped. What should we do now? I choose to live well, as I am doing. That is the categorical imperative now.

We can try to find solutions, but there is no political / economic will yet to do this, for it will cost the rich; they are the ones with money but greed driven, else we humans are likely to die out. Or we can make the choice to live well and ignore the problems, damn the populations, they will just need to take care of themselves. Those who do not share what they have for food will just become the victims of roving bands of youth... and other savages. As the police fail to do their jobs, the citizens will take and take care of business... and the older...by taking their property, resources, and extermination of the old. We old need to have some defense;  well I have archery and a backhoe. The police now are all about revenue generation, not cleaning out the vandals and criminals. Shoot, shovel, shut-up as King Ralph suggested.

So what is the foundation of morals; survival, at the lowest end, until we don't. But above else, some form of a pleasant satisfying peaceful life. There we have a choice of numerous man made philosophies and numerous fanatic based religions, all of which can provide a nice life... well as long as no one breaks the fanatic bubble. Reality is a cruel mistress, but one can be true be into reality, and there is no risk of the bubble breaking... we become the foundation of our own morals... we become the wheel that roles, and needs no foundations beyond our self contained self support. We become the Cato like human... we have our valuable with us, and then we die, know we are one with ourselves. That is the foundation, confidence we are right, and satisfied with that.