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Originally posted by bilmore
None of us lives in a vacuum, born with a ready moral base. We develop social morality through interaction with society. In ten thousand years, when they've developed the ability to communicate with brocolli, will they label all of us brocolli eaters as evil? I hope not.
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I disagree. Our morals are innate. Whether we choose to abide by these morals or not is influenced by environment. Slave owners knew what they were doing was wrong. They just didn't want to admit that to themselves because it was to their advantage to act that way. So they made up justifications for their behavior. Slavery is a malum in se crime.
Women who have abortions for convenience often feel tremendous regret for the rest of their lives and many eventually admit to themselves that the decision that they made was morally wrong. It isn't their environment that makes them eventually realize this. It comes from within themselves.
eta - there are people who are sociopaths who are born without these innate morals.
