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Originally Posted by Zylark
First I think seperating anything into black and white dichotomies like good or evil, is a bit hasty. Actions should looked upon within its frame of reference, not isolated.
As such, I'd be more inclined to think in lines of beneficial towards group or individual or detrimental towards group or individual. Or in short, conformity or antisocial.
Seeing as most higher animals live in packs, most higher animals also have a social understanding of behaviour within that pack. Those that do not conform, the antisocial ones, are usually ousted and left to their own devices. A chimp that steals food or kills another chimp outside of the fight for being alpha-male, is soon found wandering the plains by themselves.
The social hiearchy demands it. Humans being animals aswell, we see this same mechanism in us. Except, we put people in prison.
It is said that good people don't need laws to behave as good people. Bad people on the other hand, do all they can to circumvent those laws, in order to behave bad.
Like all other pack-animals, we have a majority doing the right thing for no other reason than that it feels right, it is what is expected of us. But some invariably try to freeload. Productive members of the society and leeches.
We find it in us, and all other higher animals with a social structure.
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come on now meng, i know what your sayin but eliminate the word higher, every fricken animal does. ants man, ants who refuse to conform are left, same with almost all insects. its basic survival of the fittest and natural selction, animals know whats up, if they cant pull the load dont pull there part of the load. they all do it meng