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Intuitive religious morality

Nature-nurture is a false dichotomy. That moral behavior is learned behavior does not imply that moral behavior isn't genetic.

A fledgling bird is not taught to fly by it's parents, because flying is an instinctive behavior, as dictated its genetics. . Once the young bird is physically capable of flight, it is put in an situation where it must fly or fall. While the human mind may have the reasoning capability to understand complex personal relationships and predict the consequences of its own behavior, which of course are in its genetics, there is no genetic basis for not killing another human or not stealing from another human.

Neither is murder and stealing everything we have morals about....
 
A fledgling bird is not taught to fly by it's parents, because flying is an instinctive behavior, as dictated its genetics. . Once the young bird is physically capable of flight, it is put in an situation where it must fly or fall. While the human mind may have the reasoning capability to understand complex personal relationships and predict the consequences of its own behavior, which of course are in its genetics, there is no genetic basis for not killing another human or not stealing from another human.

Neither is murder and stealing everything we have morals about....

Whah?
 
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