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People Naturally Realize That Hurting And Killing Others Is Wrong. Those Who Claim It Takes Religion To Teach Us These Things Are More Or Less Arrogant And Blinded By Their Child Hood Studies Of Religion And What They Are Told.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that killing people is wrong......of course there are those who do it any ways, they still know it is wrong...those who don''t are usually proven mentally ill.what's your take
 coelho  03 Apr 2009 14:04
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I know what you're getting at and I tend to agree. People grow up and absorb the rules of the society they are born into and generally speaking most societies view hurting and killing as wrong. Religious rules can perhaps reinforce that, but it certainly is easily achieved without them so they are unnecessary in that respect. To claim people would run riot without them is wrong.
 
 Evileye  04 Apr 2009 13:21
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I wouldn't necessarily say people instinctively know killing is wrong, but their society raises them to think that way and such rules against unauthorized killing are essential to the stability of any society. I will agree though that most people are blinded by their confused understanding of religion and an inability to think rationally and critically about what they believe.
 
 Cephus  03 Apr 2009 16:19
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 You are on the wrong side. Maybe you know that.
by  Balance_92
 04 Apr 2009 11:22
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People don’t naturally realize killing is “wrong”. They’re raised to believe killing is morally and legally unjust as a child. The main reason it’s taught as being “wrong” is because it’s punishable by law in a majority of the countries worldwide. If it weren’t, killing would probably become a popular fad. Regardless, people kill other people without any apparent conflict with their conscience all the time.
 
 Hizashi  05 Apr 2009 03:25
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There is evidence that emapthy is a learned ability, so therefore in the absence of empathy murder would not be seen as wrong.
 
 Balance_92  03 Apr 2009 21:03
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The author is mixing truisms with idiotic concepts.

The debate concerning morality is one that has been going on for a few 1000 years and can be quite complicated. All anyone needs to do is to look up the word and see how many definitions there are.

The statements pointing to those who "Claim It Takes Religion To Teach Us These Things" are true in some cases, not true in others and would seem to show the author is ignorant and arrogant.
 
 justsumguy  03 Apr 2009 16:45
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 or they show how i was reased or taught....because that's exactly what i was taught in school...so before assuming maybe you should inquire, making you the arrogant one
by  coelho
 03 Apr 2009 20:52
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