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Maybe morality should be based more around natural law, cause and effect, and human nature rather than some loose principles stemming from antique books that may not serve in this day and age?
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I think that's exactly what morality
is based on. Religious tenets are based on social/species level needs; they have been processed through human brains, however, so they've been infused with class/gender/race inequalities and irrationalities and personal/class biases. They've been fed through millennia of social and political development, and in some instances moralities have petrified, but at their core they began as simple survival strategies.
Don't kill, don't steal, and even don't loot in times of disaster are rules based in survival at a societal level. At an individual level, looting is just a matter of survival, and concepts of ownership vary wildly through human history; but looting means a breakdown in social order and that
is a potential threat to a society's (tribe's/family's) survival.