Message from @Ehzek
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For instance is raping a child the same as being called a rapist for not reading a girls mind that she isnt comfortable
A tax collector, a fisherman, and a doctor who followed some new age philosopher?
Its the difference between things that are cleary wrong from things like speeding tickets
Also it all dates back to Socrates. Hardly new age
So the day before Socrates was born, it was okay to do something?
Socrates and other philosophers have influenced more than religion in many aspects
Okay so they are the origin of morality?
The concept as we study it not as an intangible aspect
You say these ideas go back to Socrates
Just like love still existed before the word did
Or pain or comfort
Who lived from 470 BC to 399 BC.
The Code of Ur Nammu was written around 2100 BC and includes things like, don't murder
And they were a western religion?
Judaism and Christianity aren't Western religions in your definition either
But you're deflecting
Socrates died 399 BC. The oldest discovered "written" law to date was chiseled 2100 BC
But the origin of the current study of morality is based on Socrates
In it, it forbids murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping, lying, and so on
Which are mala en se
So where did the Sumerians get the idea? WHY did people always regard them as wrong?
They got it from intelligence
Where did that intelligence come from?
Those thing have always been short term in their gains and far more detrimental
The intelligence came from learning
Learning how? Reading? So prior to the invention of writing, no morality could exist?
Even animals will not engage in many of those things alone
Oh yes they will
Animals rape, kill, eat each other, steal, a whole list of things
What animal only rapes?
What animals only kill with no need to eat?
Surplus killing is rare in animals
Ducks, geese, bottlenose dolphins, chimps, orangutans
Rape isnt common in animals nor is wanton murder
It bears too much risk
And therefore is wrong
Up to half of all matings of orangutans are rape
So if there's no risk, it's right?
Which is a small amount compared to the entire animal kingdom
Its only humans who have developed minds to understand vastly complex risks and benefits that true morals appeared