Replacing Religious Morality

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The idea that knowing not to hurt people is somehow evident and universal doesn't exactly mesh with human behavior throughout history, or even now.

But there are practical reasons not to, really.

Besides, not to be flippant, but if there was simply no practical reason not to hurt people, we'd still be fighting the first world war, since there'd be no reason to negotiate peace. Every day, billions of people somehow manage to go about their days without assaulting others:the idea that people can't see a reason to be peaceful is largely refuted by the fact that most of us are.