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appear to talk crap sometimes, JaSin
Aborigines maintained territory through tribal warfare as you cannot fail to be aware
they were brutal in fact. Little girls -- and I mean very young girls -- were given to old men -- and I mean much older men --- as 'brides/wives'. In fact there's a famous photograph around, which was publicised not too long ago, which showed a 40-ish aboriginal male with his litttle toddler bride on his shoulders. She was too little and too young to walk
likewise, little boys were given to haggard old lubras as 'husbands'
as time went on, the old spouses died or were killed, after which their by now much older child spouses were given little children as sex-object spouses. And that's the cycle, repeat endlessly
a priest in the Norther Territory attempted to save a bunch of little children from such a fate early last century from memory. It was something of a landmark case
Birth control consisted of dropping a newborn from the loins and leaving it where it lay for the dingos. The Aborigine had by then regressed so far that they no longer had the acumen to connect sex with pregnancy
Aboriginal women/girls/boys were flogged and mistreated to within an inch of their lives. Females were valued less than a dingo, unless of course, she absconded, at which point she was regarded as property and wars, retribution and punishment for the female in question if she was unfortunate enough to be recaptured by her tribe's menfolk
It was not an idyllic race by any means -- unless of course you subscribe to the ridiculously censored crap doing the rounds of late
and while we're at it, how do you imagine the Aboriginal pygmy that I told you about a few months ago disappeared/were rendered extinct as a separate group? I'm pretty sure that in the material I linked then, it was stated they were terrified of the full size Abos who hunted them down
as to 'sin' and it being imposed by religion, it's my belief that most creatures, in their own way, demonstrate empathy
sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists --- they lack empathy which is why they are as they are. In fact, that trio enjoys the suffering of others, be they human, animal or other
empathy causes a creature/human/other to understand the emotions experienced or suffered by others
if a human does something to cause suffering to another (animal or human) that human understands that suffering and regrets inflicting such a painful emotion on something else. That regret usually results in the human seeking to avoid inflicting similar suffering on anything else
you see it with children. They might poke the cat with a stick and when they see the pain or hurt feelings suffered by the cat, you will often notice pain in the child's own eyes. It regrets what it did. That's how it learns not to hurt others
A wish to not hurt others (humans, animals) could be described as an awareness, an understanding, of 'sin'
little kids don't know about sin or what sin is supposed to be. But they possess empathy and that's what leads them to discriminate between, roughly speaking, 'right and wrong'
Anyone who is not a narcissist or psychopath or sociopath has a fair understanding of right and wrong -- even those who've had no religious education or eschew religion altogether
religion is merely an attempt to formalise
society's beliefs & understanding as to right and wrong, punishment, etc. All the garb, the control mechanisms etc. could be scrapped with no real loss other than to those who profit and benefit from the show-biz elements
the Zoroastrians' primary belief was '
Right thoughts, right actions, right speech'. Those simple instructions alone would be sufficient to promote a decent life, decent behaviour in anyone not a mental case, a narcissist, a sociopath or psychopath
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