kowenicki said:
If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy not religion. We had empathy as a species way before we had religion. There have been thousands of gods, I just chose to belive in one less than you. etc etc
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no... that's not really true
the degree to which we feel empathy is always tempered by whether someone is a part of our preffered social grouping or not
empathy is always subjective its not at all objective
meaning that people always tend to treat some groups of people better than other groups of people and that's a fact
for example, 300 innocent civilians get killed in syria to supposedly kill 1 terrorist and no one bats an eye ( and this is done to supposedly help the people of syria! just like lybia just like iraq )
have one of those terrorists bomb some event in a western country killing 10 people or so and everyone loses their minds
beyond that how individuals define "right" and "wrong" is always in flux across people regardless
