> From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As to your specific question......and I'm just throwing out ideas > here.....many religious people use their religion as a guide for > morality. > Yes, they have an innate sense of right and wrong...but while murder is > illegal based on the law, it is IMMORAL based on their religious > beliefs. > This doesn't really become an issue until the law and their morality > conflict.
I would say that murder is immoral on human grounds: every moral code ever conceived, whether secular or religious seems to agree with this. Religion may reinforce this idea, but it didn't generate it. > When the law says something is legal, but a person draws on their > religious > teachings to conclude that the action is immoral.....they may question > how > someone with NO religious affiliation might come to a conclusion on the > action...? Do they simply assume that everything which is legal, must > be > moral? If not, what do they draw from? There's a basic "moral" drive. Much of it, if looked at subjectively, can be traced to the evolutionary pressures on social animals. Sharing resources, cooperative protection of the young, punishment for violence to the group - these all exist in pretty much all higher-order social animals. Intelligence adds many variations and gradations on these basic drives. Societal and environmental pressures add even more. Sometimes things go weird but for the most part basic moral values are remarkably consistent across nearly every society on earth. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245958 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
