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Is it possible for a moral to exist outside of religion?
The word moral is the name given to accepted standards of behavior. It isn't a thing. As DJ pointed out in
Message 3 for a group to succeed they need to get along, to get along they need basic rules of conduct.
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No animals are moral.
IMO, nonhuman animals do have accepted standards of behavior. They aren't neccessarily the same as human standards, but then while humans may share some basic ideas of right behavior; all human standards of right behavior are not necessarily the same in every culture.
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They find nothing wrong with killing for food.
And neither do most people if you are talking about killing an animal for nourishment.
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Unless one argues that science is a religion, it seems obvious that the birth of morals is the religions of the world and that religion controls every individual human beings life.
Why do people keep trying to say that science is a religion. Maybe religion is just an ancient form of science that stopped updating.
IMO, standards of behavior have been around even before humans.
"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz
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