Well my question to you would be if you accept what you are saying...then where do you get your concept of "right way" and "what is wrong".
Personally, the bible.
If you telling someone that they are "wrong" or "right", you are appealing to same kind of standard of behavior which you expect that person to know about.
Yuppers, any rational person can or should not make someone accountable if they are unaware of the facts.
When telling someone that they are right or wrong..they will nearly always try to make out that what has been done does not really go against the standard...they don't act as no standard exists, they just try to mold it so it would appear that it wasn't breached.
Yuppers, human nature. Sometimes compromise is a dirty word.
Now a person is always free to disobey this sense if they want. But if they do so to an extreme the individual will be removed from society, ie. criminals.
Perhaps you might say that several different civiliazations have different mores and morality. True, to an extent....mores and not morality differ. Name a single country where it is considered honarable to run away in battle, for example, or where double crossing everyone and everything is acceptable....it's inconcievable. Morality is congruent across the board. Mores, can have differences but still have the same basic concept. For example Americans may differ with Africans on the amount of wives one may have...but there is still the basic underlying principle that you may not simply have any woman you like.
Good point about morality. It is always in flux. I was thinking more on the lines of principles. They tend to never change with the tide of society or popular opinion.
So my point is...there is an innate sense of have we all, as humans, ought to behave. And secondly, just because that sense is there doesn't mean we keep it--I break it all the time. I can recall times where I have been less than kind to a person, or excuses I made to justify an action or something as 'minor' as that....but I KNEW I was doing something wrong. And that's where I agree with you...the law of human nature is there but it is one that isn't always kept...but it's still there. [/B][/QUOTE]
I agree with your viewpoint about human nature. So stands the question: why do some actually care about doing something wrong and try to do a better job of improving (not talking about perfection, either), whereas some don't care at all?