Morals: they're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Aren't they? What about the societies in which it is immoral not to eat human flesh? What kind of survival is that?

Well, but those who adhere to morality survive within the group. If the group eats human flesh, you do too.

There must be a name for the code, the set of rules, by which an individual lives in such a way as to help his species - something over and above morals.

Let's define that as the ethos.

That's what Homo Gestalt needs: not morality, but an ethos. but shall I sit here, with my brains bubbling with fear, and devise a set of ethics for a superman?

I'll try. It's all I can do.

Define:

Morals: Society's code for individual survival.

(That takes care of our righteous cannibal and the correctness of a naked man in a nudist group.)

Ethics: An individual's code for society's survival.

(And that's your ethical reformer: he frees his slaves, he won't eat humans, he 'turns the rascals out.')

From the book More than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon