“Our perception of morality evolved with our intelligence and ability to survive and actually worry about such things.”
Exactly, when I speak to christians I always try to explain it: different boundary conditions lead to different moral values.
When the jews emerged as seminomadic (some text removed by mod), they adopted the “you should not kill”, but why? Prior to them, in a hunter gatherer society killing was the norm, also killing war prisoners. Because feeding them was limited to what you can hunt/gather. When people turned to agriculture, with the caloric surplus they could feed slaves, and that is why “life” became more important, because was useful to have slaves and because you could feed them
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