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haven't you heard of cannibal tribes?
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so the horrible vicious behavior stems from social standardization rather than the propensity for evil within the individuals? these things have to start somewhere, you know. people were there before the religion, if the religion has bad things in it it's because the people put it there. if everyone has an innate moral propensity
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i want to take a few steps back from this argument. i can probably concede that morality is something innate in people, or at least something which forms deterministically in their relating to other people. but i also think 'evil,' seen as the desire to propagate suffering, is also innate in people. that because of this, some people need different ways of validating their better half or suppressing their lesser. the temptation to then institutionalize these methods is very tempting, and the fact that a little bit of both sides slips in is inevitable. at the same time though in religion there's something else going on, which is a more fundamental analysis of man in relation to the world, which you have to analyze on a separate level. how does that sit with you?
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Humans are social animals though. In order to coexist in a productive manner the sense of evil in us has to be suppressed. We can't get a long in the society if there's theft, rape, murder, etcetera. Societies before monotheism and societies without it know this...and if they didn't I sincerely believe there was some sort of preexisting structure (e.g. in a cannibalistic tribe, aside from doing it out of a sense of survival there is some order to the killing I'd imagine if they plan to have any sort of longevity as a society.)
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Fantastic. Think about it how do you feel about killing an ant? Ok well thats murder right? Or is it just getting rid of a pest? Or is it taking life from one of Gods creatures that he put here?
Since we have established that its ok to spray down a bug your question is why dont we kill each other? ha ha ha we do and we do it every day. Wars, gangs, in prison you name it. I know that you dont, because its not moraly right unless you have power and money. Or you are the president declaring war. In ending my true simple answer to why people dont kill each other is Who really wants to die thats mentally stable? Nobody thats who. |
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