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Why do different cultures often have completely different morals? What determines our morality and/or ethics?

>> No.3596598

>Why do different cultures often have completely different morals?

They generally don't.

Respect your betters and equals, don't touch what isn't yours, killing and raping without government sanction is wrong, etc.

>> No.3596633

>>3596598

Yeah, sure. Don't mind African tribes killing each-other for food.

>> No.3596644

>>3596598
He means stuff like how women in the middle east have to cover their faces, or why the japanese used to commit suicide as a matter of honor.

>> No.3596646

>>3596633
That's war. Most other cultures have it too.

>> No.3596657

Conditions of life, mostly.
Environment, techonology, demography... and pre-existing social relations.

There's also general tendancies, and self-supporting ideas like superstition.

>> No.3596662

>>3596646
Yeah, I'm sure the US soldiers eat those Afghan soldiers' flesh.

Moron.

>> No.3596666

>>3596646

Except they don't eat the hearts of their defeated in order to gain their strength or cut off the arms of their men so they can't work (not that they would work normally but you get the point)

So it's cultural. Here in europe we'd use horses to tear a man apart or burn them. It's all pretty cultural because fire would cleanse their souls etc etc. The horses thing was just fun to watch.

>> No.3596668

>>3596633

>tribes

Sounds like government sanction to me.

>> No.3596674

>>3596644
In addition to >>3596657, specific things have specific explanations...
In societies where people need to wear clothes, a sense of decency have been associated with it. Hiding one's face is equivalent to hiding one's chest. That's also synergic in the case of muslim women with the subordinated place women occupy in most muslim societies. In times where christianity was more important in europe, women hid their hair too for similar reasons. Some still do.

>> No.3596704

>>3596594
What our culture determines to be write or wrong can be influenced by religion, superstition, magical thinking, group consciousness etc.

What determines what actually is ethical is what actuall promotes our wellbeing.