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There are definitely a lot of people finding moral justification for their lifestyles. Actually one of the more interesting ideas I heard is that this is how d
by chillacy 7y ago
There are definitely a lot of people finding moral justification for their lifestyles.
Actually one of the more interesting ideas I heard is that this is how deist religions came about: early farmers had a tough time domesticating animals with animist religions (where each animal has a spirit and can be talked to) and so needed to remove the guilt that came with owning and slaughtering animals. By moving the spirit away from the animal directly and towards an animal god, they were able to absolve themselves of the guilt.
- malandrew 7y agoseeing as we evolved from animals that don't appear to experience guilt about eating other animals, I find it implausible that feeling guilt is the original state and not a pro-social trait that evolved much much later as we started forming societies.
- chillacy 7y agoThat’s correct, guilt would be something that evolves with social structure, but social structure arose pre-hunter-gatherer. The jump to agriculture took hundreds of thousands of years after the first hominids (pre sapiens).