The world isn't a thinking, feeling thing. It just exists.

My reference to the world "caring" is not a reference to it being intelligent, thinking or feeling. The fact it isn't is enough to make the statement " The world we live in does not have a single regard for morality"

The world, in this case, means the universe. It's an oddly phrased/biased way of saying exactly what you have here.

We however, when we develop the capacity to understand that something is wrong, it becomes our responsibility to try our best to alter our behavior.

Understanding the sense of right and wrong that doesn't actually exist?

What do we understand, if the world, the universe, has no care for what is and isn't moral? What do we regard as moral? Yeah, we have empathy, but countless examples of genocide have shown that empathy is clearly not something that exists for all other things, it's a selective emotion.

Not only that, we have empathy for everything, I could personalize a sad piece of paper and we would feel similar feelings towards it's pain as we would towards these slaves in the article. Hell, I'd bet you money a sad picture of a dog, or a title describing the abuse of a dog, would incite a higher emotional response from 90% of people than the title of this article.

It's why we teach little kids the importance of empathy and sympathy.

Which is exactly why I call this view of a world where there is such a thing as right and wrong "kindergarden ethics". It's the shit we teach to five year olds because they can't understand a more nuanced view of what should and should not be done.

It's why we publicly condemn people when we see them acting immorally.

What is? That we know right from wrong? What of when we condemned people for acting immorally by being gay, or being a woman who refuses to be attached at the hip to her man? How many people associated right and wrong with communist and capitalist? How many people are willing to hang others for their sense of how the world ought to be.

We condem people for acting against the group. We condemn them for disrupting society, we do not condem them for right and wrong, we condem them for what we feel is right and wrong.

That changes radically with time, and it's why I can use those examples, because there likely was a time when society was constructed in a way where those actions were right and wrong, and we would be speaking about allowing rights to gay people as those today say the same about pedofiles.

We as individuals grow and change and come to understand more and more how nuanced the world can be.

We as individuals learn different things, and our views change. Of course we view or thought today as better than our thoughts yesterday, that's why they are today's thoughts. We do not discover some greater moral system that all people ought to follow, we learn to define our view of right and wrong, and to punish and react in a hostile manner against all those who defy the norm.

The same is true for society at large, though we sometimes take huge steps backwards.

Same argument as what applies for individuals applies here. What's moral today will not be moral tomorrow, and what's immoral today may well be moral tomorrow.

There is no backwards and forwards here, it appears to be, because our capability to manipulate and have wealth and success have grown wildly, and our sense of ethics grows with that, and all of us live happier and better lives, but that's not thanks to the ethics, that's thanks to the technology.

A follows B, B does not follow A. Had it not been for the industrial revolution, we likely would still be holding slaves today. Hell, we still do, just in the form of abusing poverty around the world rather than hurting those within our own nation. We've come far.

The world matters, our choices matter, and nothing is easy.

I didn't say those things were false, only that morality isn't real, that there is no such thing as an inherent right and wrong.

Our choices matter, our lives matter, and there is a right and wrong. However, that's only when looking from our very well-trained view as a cog in the machine, because you have to turn in line.