It's true about morality and the protections of the species--to me it always just seems to practical. Things just don't work as well without it, which is probably why successful civilizations always have some recognizeable form of it.
I think many times females are associated with being more "moral" than men because they are more finely attuned to group stability and overal social harmony.
Ah--that's very interesting. I had never thought about it from that angle at all before!
On a side note, anyone who references a Judeo Christian God as a moral authority should go and actually read the Old Testament. More often than not, God doesn't actually prohibit something until after its been done, eg. it wasn't against any rules to commit murder until Cain killed Abel. Only after the fact did God see is was bad.
Interesting! I mean, there's just so much in the Bible that gets crazy if you try to use it as a literal rulebook, particularly when it comes to God's behavior in different circumstances.
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I think many times females are associated with being more "moral" than men because they are more finely attuned to group stability and overal social harmony.
Ah--that's very interesting. I had never thought about it from that angle at all before!
On a side note, anyone who references a Judeo Christian God as a moral authority should go and actually read the Old Testament. More often than not, God doesn't actually prohibit something until after its been done, eg. it wasn't against any rules to commit murder until Cain killed Abel. Only after the fact did God see is was bad.
Interesting! I mean, there's just so much in the Bible that gets crazy if you try to use it as a literal rulebook, particularly when it comes to God's behavior in different circumstances.