Morals and Ethics is conceptually based of law, in the sense that, doing right or wrong can only come from whatever legal definitions exist for actions in that particular society. Different 'societies', like countries, have different laws, so you will find people from one country to another may have a different 'flavour' of morality and ethical concepts. But, if you dig a little more, law comes from religion. This is quite evident in many cultures.
Now, us modern humans communicate freely between ourselves. We have these impinging moral and ethical clouds placed upon us by law and society, and inevitably, religion when the laws were created originally. What about cavemen?
Cavemen communicated between themselves, we know that through their social interactions and drawings. If they had a working language, then definitely communications could be there. Did they have morals? ethics? When did cavemen, primitive man begin to worship a spirit? A deity? If you look into Aboriginal culture in Australia, they walked the lands for 40 000 years, which kind of pre-dates a few religions, and they have this amazingly complex spiritual history.
Can you claim that this is a type of religion? If then you say it is, does that mean they have laws based on it? Well, I think pre-colonisation, the Aboriginals did have laws in their own tribes... which means then they may have had morals and ethics. So if we extrapolate backwards, further to the primitive cavemen, if they worshipped animal or natural spirits somehow, and grunted their communications to each other (speculation of course), then did they too have morals and ethics?....
I wonder what they could have been...
C1: Guhh huuu ug hhggggg (you should not have dragged my woman)
C2: hoh guuuh gogogo (Why not? She is woman)
C1: aahh eeg hhhu (Because she is not yours to drag)
XD
Idle thought...
Now, us modern humans communicate freely between ourselves. We have these impinging moral and ethical clouds placed upon us by law and society, and inevitably, religion when the laws were created originally. What about cavemen?
Cavemen communicated between themselves, we know that through their social interactions and drawings. If they had a working language, then definitely communications could be there. Did they have morals? ethics? When did cavemen, primitive man begin to worship a spirit? A deity? If you look into Aboriginal culture in Australia, they walked the lands for 40 000 years, which kind of pre-dates a few religions, and they have this amazingly complex spiritual history.
Can you claim that this is a type of religion? If then you say it is, does that mean they have laws based on it? Well, I think pre-colonisation, the Aboriginals did have laws in their own tribes... which means then they may have had morals and ethics. So if we extrapolate backwards, further to the primitive cavemen, if they worshipped animal or natural spirits somehow, and grunted their communications to each other (speculation of course), then did they too have morals and ethics?....
I wonder what they could have been...
C1: Guhh huuu ug hhggggg (you should not have dragged my woman)
C2: hoh guuuh gogogo (Why not? She is woman)
C1: aahh eeg hhhu (Because she is not yours to drag)
XD
Idle thought...
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