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Originally posted by Peter:
You don't need to understand right and wrong to understand
negative consequence.
You only need to understand the nature of the consequence, and
that it is undesireable.
And how do people (Adam and Eve) understand the nature of the consequence of death as well as that it is undesireable if they have never know any being or creature that has experianced death?
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Originally posted by Peter:
The above is the basis of all animal training (although one
cannot proove that other animals do not know right from wrong
current assumptions are that they do not).
I willing to bet that the animals learn the consequences from experiancing them, not from being told what they are.
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Originally posted by Peter:
If I tell my daughter that she must not do something or
I will be cross with her, she does not need to know the
difference between right and wrong, only that she does
not like it when I am cross with her.
She can only know that she doesn't like you being cross with her if she has experianced you being cross with her, or anyone else, before. Adam and Eve had never died before, neither had they ever seen someone or something die.
Your analogies are false. In both cases it is a knowledge or experiance of the consequences that cause obedience to a specific instruction. Adam and Eve had no such knowledge or experiance of death.
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