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Originally Posted by Hektore
Willravel, you appear to be claiming sort of innate universal morality that transcends cultural bias and more specifically, one that includes not slapping your mate around. Is that right?
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I don't think morality is the right word for it. There are innate behavioral tendencies and there's the social contract. The innate behavioral tendencies wouldn't necessarily
transcend culture, but culture often clashes with these tendencies. The slapping of one's wife is clearly a part of the regional social contract, but it would likely be against a human's innate behavioral tendencies. Since the social contract works best when founded on the innate behavioral tendencies, this seems to be a situation where one can judge the legal decision as ultimately poor. The same can be said of pious laws that forbid normal human sexual tendencies, for example.