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Also, she can kill you with her brain.
No, seriously, the germanic tribes had a concept of werguild - where revenge for a life taken was permissable, and even expected, but it wasnt based on any principle, except an eye for an eye, a tooth for a molar....whatnot. And today, even people who do kill, they are sentenced to life in prison (scott peterson being the recent exception)
Intrinsic Morality is relavant on some scale or another to each society. You are to some extent a product of that society and culture. Christianity shoots for something int he stratosphere - something trancendant and whatnot. Something above us. In benevolant authority. Something to appeal to when life no longer makes logical - semi logical - or even what was once vaguely recognisable as sense.
Alson, I eat meat. Tacos are neat. So are Feet. I want some Sleep.
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And so its over
Your fantasy life is finally at an end
And the world above is still a brutal place
And the story will start again
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