No way can they be instinctive, have you looked outside of your window lately? Ethics and morals are learned, starting from birth- they are
beliefs. They are learned from others around us (schools, family, friends, people, communities, social systems, culture, religion, country, etc.) and through personal experience or observation. No one person has the same set of ethics or morals, and they change over time. Human instinct and reason, without those learned ethics and morals, might surprise you in the absence of real consequences.
As it is, there are
many, many people in the world that would kill you for your resources, if they could get away with it. There are some that would do it just for fun, if they could get away with it. Aside from humans in considering the animal kingdom, killing, raping, or stealing isn't actually wrong, it's natural or instinctive- you know? Some of the most saintly people we know today are actually condemning others for their religion, that's
no different than wanting them dead. In the absence of consequences, from law or social reactions, many people would quickly violate others, even using children for work and sex. Look out your window, please.
From,
A Child's First Book of Trump, by Michael Black:
The[/PLAIN] beasty is called an American Trump.
Its skin is bright orange, its figure is plump.
Its fur so complex you might get enveloped.
Its hands though are, sadly, underdeveloped.
I would
love to agitate my Husband by getting this for our little girl and having her read it to him out of the blue one day! I probably won't do it though.
, I was thinking of something like a physicians handbook, or some bible of pharmaceuticals and their use. But then a good book on classical dynamics would be useful, as would a book on materials science.
