domingo, 29 de marzo de 2009

10 Commandments Are A Load Of Crap

Chapter 8 of The Selfish Gene was about the struggle between parents in their kids and how this is explained genetically. In his explanation of these different battles, Dawkins describes some really horrible behavior of birds and their brothers in the nest. Apparently, the first one to be born in Cuckoos throws out the rest of his siblings from the nest in order to be the one who receives all the parental attention. Talk about being jealous of your brother. He also describes how young deceive their parents in different ways in search of the utmost parental investments. One of the main commandments, states: " Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you."
If this is so common in nature, we can safely say that this commandment is not natural at all. It is an invention that was made to keep order in culture. If we can say it about one of them, all 10 commandments, then, go out the door. Not to say that they haven't done good. These 'laws' have created the system of morality with which people have lived under for hundreds of generations. However, why follow all of them if the rest of the living creatures on Earth have no regard for this so called 'order?'

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