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Originally Posted by ChrisV1
Cannibalism is few and far between. I'm not saying that all humans grasp Good and Evil but they all have the ability to. You are making chimpanzee's laws more complex than they really are. They are nothing more than if you kill one of us we'll kill one of you ideology. That doesn't mean they grasp what is Good or Evil to any extent, they are just retaliating to survive. I have not seen any evidence of one Chimp hating another because he killed another unrelated Chimp.
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And I think you're putting too much stock in the concept of good and evil. I suppose this is one subject we simply can not agree on. You view God or the Bible as the source of good and evil and I view evolution and our survival instinct as the ultimate source of morality. I think you give the human animal too much credit in the way that you seemingly attempt to sever the way we respond to our environment from instinct and label it as something much more appealing.
Like I said though, good, evil, right, wrong, moral, immoral... it's all relative.
you should also look into jane Goodall and the studies that she did on primate behaviour and social structures. Or Even Frans de Waal. He's got some good stuff too.
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