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I don't think morals began with religion. Religion most likely began from agriculture. Before we conceived of agriculture, we still had cooperation. Cooperation created morals out of necessity. It is good for a clan to maintain cooperation, therefore it is bad to do something which threatens the clan. In essence, society begets morals
There's really only one moral absolute I've been able to think of - every other scenario I can imagine has a "yeah, but what if" clause which can throw some amount of justification onto the action. All except: it is immoral to experience joy from torturing children.
And laws are morals, every single one of them. Even the deathly boring tax laws.
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