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Originally Posted by Blitzkreger
Because morals is an illusion. I hear atheists that morals is embedded in our DNA and its part of evolution, but 200 years ago we stopped the slave trade, I mean what happened, did our code just change out of the blue or what?
Id say peoples ideas of right and wrong come form there necessity in order for society to function more then dna. But its probably a bit of both.
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You would be surprised what people are willing to do to survie and when they are pushed into a corner, - kill, lie, cheat, steal, etc having morals when someone needs to survie are the last thing on their minds.
No i wouldn't be surprised. Id also call what they are doing to survive as having ideas of right and wrong when it comes to survival. They think its right to do what they need to survive.
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So called morals changes from country to country, place to place, family to family, person to person etc...how do you explain that?
Peoples idea of right and wrong isn't a fixed thing and varies form person to person. Just because they are not a fixed things doesn't mean they are not things.
You seem to think because peoples idea of right and wrong aren't objective they arent. Just because i think sex before marriage is the right thing to do and someone else doesn't, doesn't mean we dont have ideas of right and wrong on the subject. As far as who is objective right. Got me.
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If its so common, and if everyone knows what is right and wrong they why do they not do it?
Who said that? Not me....I never said everyone agrees on their right and wrongs. Or that everyone holds to their own idea of right and wrongs.
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Why is there a need for police, if you guys are so great, good and honest.
Most of the time i dont need police to follow me around 24/7 in order to follow my ideas of right and wrong.
But more generally. Because people arent perfect, have different ideas of right and wrong, and dont always hold to those views. None of that takes away that people have things they think are right and wrong. I addressed most of this in my bike analogy.
Last edited by batair; 10-10-2011 at 12:21 PM.