(March 23, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Pandemonium Wrote: Everything up to and including personal beliefs, interactions within a social contract and 'society' per se, the law, friends, family.Which I find it curious that some Judge the morality of the lifestyle of people that lived in 1500 b.c. by their modern context.
We're not born with a set of morals, we learn them, and they are almost always informed by the context we live in. A hypothetical Christian town in western Europe 1000 years ago would have displayed vastly different behaviour concerning decisions on morality than the same town today, even taking the % of christians within that town as a given. That's not necessarily good or bad, it's just the context of the moment. Retrospective analysis can certainly bring light to a situation but it doesn't always enable us to understand it. Certain societal customs that existed then were different of those that exist today, and any analysis can often be clouded by today's perception of those actions. Again, doesn't make those actions right, it's just how it is.
(March 23, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Pandemonium Wrote: You mentioned the milligram experiment. Do you think the results would be different between religious and non-religious demographics?I don't know, what I can say however is that it is against the teachings of Christ to inflict pain upon a fellow human being. Someone participates in activities that are against their beliefs are what we call hypocrites.
