Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members

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Animals clearly do have concepts of right and wrong. They respond to each other depending on their behaviour in social groups. If one of them does something the others think is wrong, they will often "tell them off", or stop them by force, whatever is necessary. On the other hand, "good" behaviour is rewarded by reciprocation.

The fact that the animals can't talk about all this like us in such specific terms, can't write it down and don't attribute all this to the magic of some unseen being makes it no less real.

I think the problem some people have is explaining why humans care about each other. Instead of finding out (and we have very satisfactory answers), they insert "magic". This is pretty silly also because clearly each human crafts their own morality. This runs contrary to the idea of some sort of imbued standard.