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Originally Posted by sprocket
... no... You dont need religion to be moral. Morality is determined more by social pressures. Religion gets ITS morals from the same social pressures, and from the people who comprise it.
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Yes. But that applies in the context of social example
from the top down. This is what I was trying to say about the social-political example.
There exist a whole lot of very poor people in the U.S. for example, with no way out of their delemna. Not an honest, law-abiding way, that is. These people see the filthy rich and want to know ... "WHY"? The majority of these people come to the conclusion that there is no moral obligation to follow, hence anything goes. It's no wonder that when the police catch thieves (and tell them
"crime doesn't pay") the bad guy goes off to jail wondering that if crime doesn't pay,
what does? What does morality mean to people who are destitute, living within the gaze of millionaires?
Capitalism? You can have it.