RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 20, 2015 at 3:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(June 20, 2015 at 3:42 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 20, 2015 at 3:33 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: There are plenty of animals who kill their own specie's babies (or their own babies), yet we don't think of them as cruel because we know that they don't know any better. We would not have the same leniency with people, because whether we know it or not, we do hold people to a higher standard. As we should.
And if the early humans knew nothing about God or sexual morality, they too would be held to a lower standard.
No, there aren't than many species killing their own babies. They don't kill their own babies at all, but the babies of other males. And the ones that do that do it for the exact same reasons, human rulers of old have done the same in the past. Securing their own position when taking over.
They sure do. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...s-animals/
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