Omega, im not tareting or baiting, I think a response to these questions might help me better understand where youve been coming from. I'm curious as to how you categorize humans beings and their origin. Do you believe that god created us as well as everything else in nature as separate entities? Do you believe in the 6 day reation? Did everything in nature first take its course, and then have humans thrown into the mix by god? Or, do you believe humans are just as much a species as everything else in nature that underwent the exact same processes, which could have been by god's guiding hand from the beginning?
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When I look at human being's decisions and actions, I can't help but think they are to a large degree embedded in our instincts. They seems really complicated, but that's because our brains can think about their thoughts to an insane degree. Throughout nature, you see social structure and certain behaviors that are distinct to each species. However, one common trend throughout the animal kingdom is the grouping of like species, and survival in numbers. Even in carrying intelligence levels, we see the same pattern repeated time and time again. African cats, elephants, primates, whales, turtles, alligators, wild dogs, birds, the list could go on and on. It's not hard to imagine that something as smart as a whale or an elephant could reason that if it attacked a like member, it would be retaliatted against. But birds probably wouldn't even care to notice. I look out my window every morning and see dozens of robins. If one day one of them decided to peck another one to death, I'd be willing to bet the rest of the robins would just keep gathering worms. What drives this consitent, non hostile, adventageous behavior? It certainly cant be absolute moral, they're birds. What this says to me, based on what we see throughout nature, things that we may consider to be moral actions or society driven agreements, may actually just be highly evolved instinctive behaviors. In nature you occasionally see back lash or unexpected behaviors, and we see this in humans as well.