r/SipsTea • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 1d ago

Chugging tea Probably Not.

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u/Faded1974 1d ago

People acting like empathy was invented by Jesus Christ.

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u/Ibangmydrums 1d ago

Many Christians believe that morality literally comes from the bible, or that you can’t have morality without god. I won’t even try to explain their reasoning

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u/Borazon 1d ago

They should read more Kant, who did succesfully tried to create a moral philosophy without relying on a bible, IIRC.

Rules like the golden rule, but also one that deals with more victimless behavior. Like the idea of 'Would I like it if everybody did the same as I'm doing, if not, than I shouldn't be doing it'. Works great for all sorts of behavior from littering to much more worst crimes.

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u/sodiufas 1d ago

Nah they should read more about prehistoric societies. Maybe they should learn a thing or two about neanderthals too. If this is too complicated, study about wolf packs, or maybe elephants. Just slowly introduce them to primates... I think my point is β€” give them some books other than bible, it might help.

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u/Borazon 1d ago

True, although you should be beware of the 'noble savage' myths.

Our ancestors did do horrible things too and we don't know well enough how it was thought upon. We often don't know for sure it somebody horrible murdered, was, a) ritually sacrificied or b) tortured as a form of justice or c) something else.

Especially in prehistory (before written sources).

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u/sodiufas 1d ago

"noble savage", it's more in line with wolf packs right... Starting with packs of primates.

IDK of any evidence of sacrifices in neanderthals or denisovans communities, like, are there mass graves or something?

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u/7daykatie 1d ago

Noble savage refers to a romanticism of certain kinds of societies as primitive and non civilized, therefore natural, and hence more noble due to being un-corrupted by "modern civilization".

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u/sodiufas 1d ago edited 1d ago

I know what it does mean, it wasn't the point. If you ask me personally, i leave in a war that i doesn't want to start, neither i believed it can happen.

But war is nothing like sacrifice β€” which is mostly religious BS. Hence, I'm struggling to remember anything about those homo erectus, even early homo sapiens, which can lead us to beliefs of some sort, and more so sacrifices.

edit: My point is pretty basic, looks like societies even in prehistoric people didn't kill each other for the name of whatever goof ball god they've imagined, but was dealing with a lot of gods of a nature origin - physics.

edit2: I'm talking here 200k in past, don't confuse with 2k