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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Yes, but what is the *origin* of good and evil? What/who decided what is good and what is evil? [/quote] So first you need to accept that good and evil are not unchanging across time and across societies. Some societies consider slavery and human sacrifice good, and some consider them evil. So clearly there was no one creator that decided what was good and what was bad. Now, all humans do have the concepts of "good" and "bad". Why? because these were socially advantageous concepts. To simplify, suppose you have lots of groups of hominids competing for resources. One group gradually develops the concept of good and bad and begins punishing those who do bad and rewarding those who do good. As a result, this group develops more effective cooperation for hunting and more effective distribution of resources, and outcompetes the other groups that do not develop this concept. we are descendants of the group that developed this concept.[/quote]
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