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Originally Posted by Ducimus
If we were to split hairs, id say, that if a set of religious commandments were being written today, and we were sitting in the same room as the guy doing the writting, and he wrote those down, id say something like, "Well duh!" These things are baser moralities. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a religious scholar to know that being stolen from, cheated on, lied to, or killed really freaking sucks. I don't want these things done to me, so I don't wish them on anyone else. It's a no brainer. Really.
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We are not born understanding that killing, cheating, lying and stealing are wrong. Basically we are animals at birth and taught right from wrong. It is not instinctual that I would think. These ideals of right and wrong came from somewhere.