Morality, tradition, religion and Darwin

One of my fundamental beliefs is that Darwin was right, "Survival of the fittest." There is a theory that formed the basis for a number of philosophical drift, but what we define as human is to have enough power to not accept the exclusion of those not proven to be the "fittest". My belief is based on a "humanistic Darwinism '.
However, I would like to make some adjustments to morality, tradition and religion.
How does morality and how morality can be different between different parts of the world? To begin directly with the heart of the matter; in Inuit communities, it was customary for a male guest was invited to share the night with the hostess. When Amundsen during his "discovery" of the Northwest Passage was invited to spend the night with a inuitfru he turned it down. In Islam it is allowed four wives. Both customs unthinkable in Scandinavia.
One can philosophize long on this but my conclusion is Darwin. In the contexts in which the custom arose, it was rational and contributed to the long term survival.
In an area where it waged war, men are the fighters and are not killing so much of the civilian population, you get a surplus of women. Then it is rational that the men who remain secure population by having children with several women.
In an area where contact with the outside world is limited, inbreeding a real threat. DNA from a highly rational approach to eliminate the risk of consanguinity, so a inuitstam with the custom of inviting the sperm from one guest to his own gene pool has better chances of survival.
In an area with less risk of inbreeding is sexually transmitted diseases a much greater risk. Here are strictly twosomes solution. Marriage and sin declaration of extramarital affairs is a rational överlednadsstrategi.
In hot countries the pork and milk bad long before the beef. Thus it is rational to avoid the foods that could trigger the disease.
The small Jewish canopy is also rational. All the way a grown man and how the hair is thinning on the scalp and who have had sunshine in the Mediterranean region, understand that it is not bad with a protection of the bald area.
But what has happened since? Well it was rationally have been absorbed by ethics and religion. There are no objective reasons for twosomes as remedy for venereal diseases, when to use contraception. There is no rational reason to avoid certain types of meat or milk when you have a refrigerator, there is no objective soul for polygamy if you have a population that is balanced.
One might think, and like a lot of things but you should definitely move away from coercion based on rationality, which has become one of the religion in which the rational reason expired!










































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