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Surely the Maya and the Aztecs had a moral code -yet they practicticed human sacrifice in numbers, all in the name of their religion. The Sumerians, and the ancient pre-Christian Romans had a much different sexual moral code from us. The Romans thought suicide was a normal response to loss of honor. That was part of their moral code. As you ntoed, the ancient Greeks thought it perfectly normal to abandon unwanted babies in the wild. Modern Muslims in many African and Asian nations condone treatment of women that Western people find barbarous. Perhaps we do need a moral code after all, Dr Who, but we should not expect it to be universally accepted, or not to change over time, or to be an absolute. One could even argue that liberals and conservatives have a different moral code in modern America.
Surely the Maya and the Aztecs had a moral code -yet they practicticed human sacrifice in numbers, all in the name of their religion. The Sumerians, and the ancient pre-Christian Romans had a much different sexual moral code from us. The Romans thought suicide was a normal response to loss of honor. That was part of their moral code. As you ntoed, the ancient Greeks thought it perfectly normal to abandon unwanted babies in the wild. Modern Muslims in many African and Asian nations condone treatment of women that Western people find barbarous.
Perhaps we do need a moral code after all, Dr Who, but we should not expect it to be universally accepted, or not to change over time, or to be an absolute.
One could even argue that liberals and conservatives have a different moral code in modern America.
