Although I suspect that you have me on "Ignore" and will have to be told by someone else, I agree with you. At its best, an environment--be it formal education, religion, family and peer values and pressure--encourages the development of these "higher" beliefs and behaviors such as a revulsion toward unnecessary killing, arson, and the like.
The other behaviors that you cite--eat cows, not eat cows, eat pigs, not eat pigs, not kill anything at all, eat fish on Friday, bow to Mecca, not work on Saturday, on and on and on--are more ritual than morality. |
