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Barring religious beliefs to the contrary, human beings are not intellectually uniform - we don't have the
same desires nor identical logic. Few people expect a rock to share their moral worldview, but it's easier
to imagine a plant would perhaps abhor murder and mutilation. As we approach humanity - perhaps
arriving along the way at a conversation with our nearest house-pet we begin to share concepts of
individuality and judging individuals for their actions. By the time we're dealing with other human beings
we certainly share a wealth of biological instinct driving us to label the same concepts as 'right' or
'wrong', based on our personal projection of the action's consequence on our world - some people's
world may revolve around physical pleasure, or social pleasure (various sensory stimuli and brain
chemicals that cause us to 'feel'). An individual may lack the biological ability to feel 'wrong' about taking
a life or seeing a living being in pain, but still feel bad committing an act society has taught them is
'wrong' - or they may derive enjoyment from it, more complicating still is that there may be a logical
reason to take a life or inflict pain, yet instinct (either primal or social) resists.
In short, humans are complicated creatures with far too many variables for us to fully understand or
control each other's thought processes, but under normal circumstances we definitely share a vast array
of instincts.
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Ideas of right and wrong are biased.
Each person believes they are right in their own mind at the moment of each action. People have
different ideas, or in other words, opinions, of what is right and what is wrong and that is based on the
circumstances that surround them. In my mind, there is only one definitive right and wrong in each
situation, but what that is depends on a person's opinion. Just because they think they're right, that
doesn't make them right, but their ideas of right and wrong are still not the same as ours might be.
Morality is subjective
The thing is most cultures have different stances on what is right or wrong and that even includes big
things such as murder rape and infanticide for example many tribal cultures kill babies that are physcially
or mentally challeneged or that the tribe doesn't want to raise and they see no problem with it