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Do morals exist outside of a person?

spiritually speaking:

If I do something bad and genuinely forget about it

vs

I never did anything bad but genuinely believe I did do it.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago
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    The key reality (a consistent thing recognized in all cultures) is the thing in english we call 'conscience' -- our innate or real tendency to feel bad when we do something seriously wrong (not unimportant things usually, but the more meaningfully wrong, even if the action itself is smallish). At times conscience informs us of a wrong action we don't like to think is a wrong action.

  • Archer
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    So your choice is stupidity and paranoia it seems.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

    The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

    The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

    It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

    But Christians found a way round it!

    Government statistics show that Christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime whilst year on year government figures show atheists make up only 2% of the prison population!

    The Catholic Church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/paedophile crimes of their priests alone!

    Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

    Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

    So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it‽

    A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

    Source(s): California Institute of Technology
  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Yes they do, and they can drive you insane.

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  • 2 years ago

    Yes. Morals are fully explained in the text.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    THE COMMANDS ABOUT WHAT TO DO ARE IN THE BIBLE...MORALITY IS FOR HUMANS...GOD WANTS us to do the right thing and repent of sins.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    No, I don't believe they do. Amnesia would absolve a person of all past sins.

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