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Originally Posted by Jerome_1
The only way a conscience or evidence of a conscience can be measured is to ask people questions regarding different moral dilemmas and see if they answer the same way.
I posted a study on here before of a evolutionary biologist who did exactly this. His findings were that people for the most part did answer certain moral dilemmas using the same logic.
Link: Is Morality Innate and Universal? | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER Magazine
Richard Dawkins also accepts that people have a sense of what is right and wrong and that it is universal, he attributes this to the social and cultural effects of evolution rather than being instilled in us by a creator. |
LOL even the first question
"A healthy man walks into a hospital where five patients are awaiting organ transplants. Is it morally acceptable to kill the man in order to harvest his organs to save the lives of five others? If you instantly answered no, you share a near-universal response to the dilemma, one offered by peoples and cultures all over the globe."
states "near" universal, stating that nothing found from his research is conclusive. Even I would see killing the healthy man as acceptable. What a crock of shit.
There are even tribes in Papa New Guinea that practice morally detestable practices according to western belief such as pedophilia. There are tribes of people that have eatten the corpse of their dead "see laughing sickness." There are cultures throughout history that share virtually no moral parallels out there. Only one of the Roman emperors wasn't bisexual, and he was a blundering idiot and among the least mentally capable of all the emperors.