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caelum19  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religion's use.

    I never think about hell. Literally, never. I'm not concerned about it and I never will be, it is a man-made place meant to scare impressionable, unintelligent men women and children. Still, I don't kill people and I'm a pretty good dude.

Wouldn't that be down to how you were raised? and the way your parents were and their parents were?

Obviously in modern times you don't need religion to have morals, but without anyone to teach you them, would they still exist? Genie had no sense of ownership or right/wrong when she was released, she was eventually taught these moral values but back in the day there would have been no one to teach these if they didn't exist in the first place.

Does anyone know of some studies done to see how apes value eachother's lives? for example if you placed a ape in front of a cage, and gave the ape a button which convinced the subject the ape in cage was killed, would he press it? if not what would it take for him to press it?





thenewgreen  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Does anyone know of some studies done to see how apes value eachother's lives? for example if you placed a ape in front of a cage, and gave the ape a button which convinced the subject the ape in cage was killed, would he press it? if not what would it take for him to press it?
my guess is that theadvancedapes will be able to help you here.