Primal Morality

1.

I want to see "primal morality" alive and active in society.
I don't know if this is naive thinking, but it might be a way to heal social conflicts.

I wrote something similar in an old post... The reason I don't engage in the commonly mentioned "hatred of Chinese people" is because I worked alongside Chinese people at my previous job.

When COVID exploded in Korea, they worried about us over video calls. Conversely, when Chengdu went into lockdown, we worried about them. That was the kind of relationship we had. These are people I worked alongside, pooling our efforts to achieve results in such situations.

Because I have memories of those people, I just can't bring myself to do it [hate them].
It's not because I'm some paragon of lofty morality.

It's because I worked with them, bonds formed, and I don't want people I care about to be hurt by my words. I consider this feeling to be primal morality.

2.

"Primitive morality" is, how should I put it, a kind of "uncivilized emotion." Something even ancient people from the Stone Age probably had. Like seeing someone cry in front of you and wanting to cry yourself.

If you refine and express that well, I think it becomes the "civilized expression of uncivilized emotion."

Things like hating a certain politician or supporting another – these are "civilized emotions" that can only exist in civilized society. However, the way these are sometimes expressed seems to fall into the category of "uncivilized expression of civilized emotion," which is truly regrettable.