alekth on 17 September 2010
Killing, stealing, covetting your neighbours hard working donkey and others are seen as wrong based on how the members of a society have to behave if that socierty is to stay intact and function. Would you willingly be a member of a society where others are allowed to kill you and steal from you? Would you protect that society when it's threatened by someone?
It has nothing to do with religion, except that religion, as a guideline to behaviour of those who belong to it, recognizes those norms and reasserts them.
