In other domains, such as morality, the acceptance of an unprovable set of intrinsic values represents the norm and is clearly advantageous to society. For example, most of us believe that the gratuitous murder of another human being is not simply wrong because a deity or a law says so; we believe that in some way it is intrinsically wrong. Whether or not this view is true (we wouldn't think of a lion killing another lion to establish its territory as wrong), the world is a much safer and I believe better place while we hold this belief. Moreover, as a society we have such a strong belief in the rightness (or at least utility) of this view that we are willing to lock away in jail or kill those individuals who disagree.
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