(June 10, 2013 at 4:30 am)fr0d0 Wrote: @Esq: Some people choose immorality. Laws are a consensus. The ten commandments constitute what can be universally agreed, supposedly.
But that makes no sense, since people can and do choose to deny the commandments anyway. And wouldn't there be an even more comprehensive consensus about what constitutes morality if we're all born with an innate god given sense of what it is? Wouldn't that make the bible redundant, in that case?
Besides, if you're looking for an example of consensus, you couldn't have picked a worse one; people even today are in constant, omnidirectional disagreement as to their interpretation of the biblical commandments (I'm thinking of the whole kit and kaboodle, not just the big ten) to the point of fracturing into constantly smaller and more specific iterations of the religion. Frankly, a moral sense would be a much, much more effective method of consensus building.
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