Reciprocity - The foundation of moral systems

This is a video segment from the DVD companion to my master's thesis, The Development of Self as a Means for Determining Degrees of Culture, where I illustrate the biologically conserved potential for and cultural propagation of moral systems. I define morals as those behaviours of personal character, defined by the cultural curriculum, mediated by caretakers prior to social entrée, lending to an initial conscience sense of acceptable and unacceptable, yet available to amendment by the Self orienting to the social system of conflict management. This is not to be confused with the cognitive process of moral reasoning, though it is a part of this process when survivorship is not threatened, and does provide the means for adequately describing moral "values" due to it tie to cultural and social processes such as faith-based belief systems.

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[TurboDally]

I kinda got irked when seeing them hump whilst one of them carries a dead body :S

[PhD4NonhumanPrimates]

@TurboDally - What you see is not a sexual act as most people would consider it. In circumstances such as this, these apes are actually providing one another with reassurance - essentially doing the best they can to provide comfort during a painful moment. It is appropriate to see this as akin to hugging.

[alstar999]

0:49 lmao

[AbsolutelyCrackers]

0:53 Made me laugh how he slapped his face