Tangle writes:
Not so much with the unwittingly, already.
Nah, I didn't really think so, I was teasing you a little. Basically we agree, but I am trying to get at the details of the argument.
It's only when the brain is damaged or religions get involved that we vary.
I think the variation is greater than you think. We all vary in height, weight, et cetera, but also in brain structure and thus in mental makeup. You don't have to be brain damaged or religious to differ in morality from the next person.
You'd be hard pressed to find any society on the planet at any point in history that thought rape, murder, theft, lying etc was a good thing to be encouraged amongst its own tribe.
You'd be surprised. There are tribes in the Amazon who have not truck with killing an infant if it suits them. They reason that, since the child does not speak yet, it's not a
person yet, but more like a thing. You can simply get rid of the thing if you want to.
And I bet there are even examples closer to home.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.