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Originally Posted by Pillbox Joe
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.
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I don't think there has been any extensive investigations into finding out whether or not people have a universal sense of morality.
That link i posted wasn't extensive, but it did suggest that people do have the same degree of morality when answering moral dilemmas that couldn't be blamed on social conditioning.
Your other points are moot, because you can show how people behaved at a certain point in history. You can't show if the people engaging in that behaviour thought it was right or wrong.