Tastes Like: Moral code? Now THERE'S an idea! Heh! Actually, if you look at the underpinnings of all the major religions(anything from Christian to Muslim, Buddhism to Taoism) you'll find they sit on the same basic, major precepts. And these precepts, few though they may be, have then been spun into endless human relational codicles, and codes, all of which history has shown are then used to define "us" from "them".
Those precepts? Ohhhh, things like you shouldn't cheat, steal, kill, practice greed, gluttony, and/or avarice, and do to others as you'd like them to do to you, etc., etc.. And there really aren't all that many of these fundamental precepts. Perhaps as few as 10?
Still, all of us err when we think our interpretation of these precepts is THE one, rather than recognizing and acknowledging the spirit the precepts embody. We all go wrong when we begin to set ourselves apart from the rest. The ego is such a damn hard "thang" to keep bridled and controlled, ain't it?
But what do I know? I'm just'a human being. ;-)
John~
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