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I suspect the opposite. I suspect that the reason that moral codes are so widespread is that they work to shape the behavior of people.Shall we start a poll? This could be one of the questions.Q1) How many of you have avoided shoplifting or doing some other activity because those around you thought it was wrong?Or did you mean that sociologically? That mankind as a whole is not more civilized. I think we act more civilized but at any moment we could lose the civilizing influence of our moral codes. Once upon a time infanticide was commonplace. Today it makes the paper because it is rare. In fact, infanticide helped to cause the dramatic rise of Christianity because it was the Christians who picked up all the infants abandoned in the streets and raised them as more Christians. Today it is the Christians who oppose abortion and adopt a disproportionally larger amount of babies or offer assistance to teen mothers.
I suspect the opposite. I suspect that the reason that moral codes are so widespread is that they work to shape the behavior of people.
Shall we start a poll? This could be one of the questions.
Q1) How many of you have avoided shoplifting or doing some other activity because those around you thought it was wrong?
Or did you mean that sociologically? That mankind as a whole is not more civilized. I think we act more civilized but at any moment we could lose the civilizing influence of our moral codes. Once upon a time infanticide was commonplace. Today it makes the paper because it is rare. In fact, infanticide helped to cause the dramatic rise of Christianity because it was the Christians who picked up all the infants abandoned in the streets and raised them as more Christians. Today it is the Christians who oppose abortion and adopt a disproportionally larger amount of babies or offer assistance to teen mothers.
