If you are a materialist, there's no intrinsic value to anything. It's all in the eye of the beholder/observer.
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I used to entertain the idea that "morality" in humanity is an evolved trait, but have since largely abandoned that view. In essence, it makes a mockery of free will. If we were "programmed" by our genes to be "moral" then, in effect, it means that we are not directly responsible for our own deliberate actions. That being the case, it is meaningless to talk about morality, since we are simply carrying out actions that we cannot help but carry out. A person's actions would thus be no more praiseworthy than they are something we can blame on the actor, since he is simply born to behave that way.
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Is there any concrete proof/experiment/notion that free will is anything more than a phylosophical construct made to make us feel better?
