In an enlightened world there would be no need for morality as we know it. Intelligent, mature and reflective beings would have realised that morality manifest is little more than the attempt to manipulate in accordance with a particular set of values. Morality as such works under the guise of elevated principles for the benefit of all but usually that’s not the case. It is invariably no more than an effort to control.

Enlightened people would of course still have to manipulate others. But this would ideally be done in a more transparent manner: at the lower end of the moral spectrum as selfish interest which if honest would be acceptable; at the upper end as shared endeavour and genuine benevolence.

Morality as it has traditionally been known, with its absolutist tendencies and God-given commands, would come to be seen as a tired and outmoded mechanism, a function of a pre-psychologised age where individuals misinterpreted their motives with story-telling and made favourable cases for themselves which showed them in the best light, even when that light was highly distorted.