The Golden Rule: Natural way of thinking

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  1. magnifier661

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    I'm gonna have to agree with Denny on his take. Man's true nature isn't the "Golden Rule". I believe some level of inherited "rules" must be passed on from generation to generation.

    We see way too much violence, especially when the economic and environmental changes are so drastic.
     
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    Children hit one another to take away the other's toys. Until you scold them and they learn not to.

    It's learned.
     
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    Or you could go on the other end of the spectrum and see a pattern of criminal minds. Usually they are in terrible households with zero structure and usual abuse. You could argue that some insanity are results of learned behavior from a terrible childhood.
     
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    Sounds a lot like the Christian doctrine of an innate sin nature.
     
  5. Denny Crane

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    As I wrote earlier, the church as proxy for government tries to convince people to stay in line.
     
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    You mean, like a cop shooting an unarmed youth who just graduated from high school and was looking forward to college?

    The very definition of what is "wrong" is skewed.
     
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    I mean exactly that... We may look even deeper in that event and find out that cop or cops were all abused or taught that they could treat other human beings like that.

    Hence my question to you. What defines what is moral?
     

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