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Originally Posted by wbradley
I believe we here are all fundamentally of the same culture. That is, western culture as defined by developed societies that deem killing humans as immoral. We have a bunch of rules about what is and is not socially acceptable behaviour. It goes back the Judeo-Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, and a whole bunch of other religions that set the rules for social norms long before governments and police existed as they do today. They are a basic set of rules to live by that are for the betterment or at least livability of society. This is how civilization as we now know it came to be. Fortunately, governments and laws in the developed world are now secular, that is they are separate from religion so we are all free to believe and practice as we wish. However the tenets of those fundamental rules are upheld. The ten commandments are a good example of the basic guidelines. I am not religious but I believe to this day these rules and the "mythology" that surrounds them were passed on for millenia with a good reason.
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Again I agree.
I have only thrown those examples out as a method to illustrate that good and bad are seen by the perspective of each person and there really is no such thing.
You just took those examples and ran with them which was not what I intended.
Like I said, Ammonia probably summed it up much better in a couple of sentences that I did with my overly elaborate examples that left me open to further analysis!