zephcom
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So then, morality really isn't based on words of people or god/s. It's based on the subjective values that people hold in different cultures, agreed?
Pretty much. Those subjective values then get encoded into the culture's religion and laws. We have seen that happen in America. In the first decades of America, slavery was accepted as morally okay. Christianity adapted to that and some sects even created a 'story' about Black skin being a mark of God that allowed them to assist God in punishing those people for an ancestor's 'sin'.
America also accepted as morally okay the displacement and eradication of the native population. Christianity adapted by creating the idea of Manifest Destiny...the idea that 'God' had given this new land to the Europeans who were facing religious opposition in Europe.
Morality is usually self-serving within a culture.
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