Existence After Death

dyluck writes:Interesting how, no matter what culture, every one of them has a problem with murder among others. Where does that come from? Where did a cell or primate in evololution ever come to understand what is right from wrong? Who was the first person to say murder was wrong? You see, we live in a culture where it is wrong.

dyluck writes:Most of land law is build on the 10C

caffeine writes:If you mean never historically, this isn't true - and some of these are still sometimes enforced today. Some of the theocratic regimes of the Middle Easy have laws against idolatry and blasphemy - even Ireland, in modern secular Europe, has blasphemy laws - which they've recently strengthened in contradiction to everywhere else in Europe (though I don't reckon a charge would stand up to legal challenge).There are all sorts of laws in various US states about 'keeping the Sabbath holy' - prohibitions against the sale of alcohol on Sunday, for example. Adultery carries very strict punishments in some countries - Malaysia, for example.

caffeine writes:dyluck's certainly wrong that all, or even most, law is based on the ten commandments, but most of them have made it into secular law here and there.

caffeine writes:I don't know if there's ever been a law about coveting (how could it be enforced)

caffeine writes:many countries have completely rewritten their legal codes. The Czech Criminal and Civil Codes, for instance, are very recent - they're amended from the Communist era codes, which were themselves de novo creations. Sure, they are influenced by old legal traditions and older laws, but some bits - such as laws regarding blasphemy, are simply gone.

caffeine writes:Amongst countries like Britain with different legal systems, where the ancient bits cling around in statute law long after they become enforceable, the laws are still on the books. Old laws about blasphemy and the preservation of the Sabbath are still there to read, even if they've been superseded by recent laws. There was an attempt to bring a blasphemy prosecution in England fairly recently, which the judge angrily dismissed as a waste of time, so the law was formally abolished as part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

caffeine writes:It's all well and good to say that these laws (murder and theft and whatnot) are part of standard human morality, but I'm not so sure that blasphemy is. When Christian people put these things in the legal codes, quoting the Bible as they did so, I think it's safe to argue them as coming from the Ten Commandments.

Dyluck writes:Most of land law is build on the 10C

Panda, I think you are incorrect about several of the commandments.North Carolina still allows law suits for alienation of affection (spouse stealing) and criminal conversation (adultery) as do a few other states. These laws were far more widespread at one time.

NoNukes writes:Then why say that those commandments were never enforced?

Species8472 writes:The question is this. Treatments for such "disorder" range from merging these personalities into one to downright killing all but one. Isn't this murder?

Species8472 writes:I tend to think of myself as more than just my physical body. I am more than just a collection of molecules. I am more than a collection of firing neurons that are arranged in a specific way. Yes, it is true that I am the result of the specific arrangement of neurons. But what I am is greater than the collection of the parts.That said, I have been bothered by the concept of multiple personality disorder. I have done some study of this phenomenon in psychology. I know that mainstream psychology dismisses the alternate personalities as just aberations around the core personality. But I really do see them as having a potential to have a soul of their own. They certainly exhibit all signs of being different people existing in the same body.