What makes us "us"? I think that most people would agree that the driving force behind what we do is our brains. I know that many people, especially those spiritually-inclined, feel that breaking us down into chemicals and science is sad, but as far as modern science sees it, that's what we are, right?

So, theroretically, would it not be possible for a person to be born completely absent of the area of the brain that makes them have certain morals?

And while on the topic, what are morals anyway? Morals are simply something that we pick up when we are growing up that are things that are inherently right or wrong to do. Nero said that different cultures and religions have different morals, which is true. Some cultures see things that we see as normal as being sinful or immoral. Does that make them wrong? Does that make us wrong?

Really, looking at it from this perspective, we are lucky we have developed morals in our society. Mind you, I think that if we hadn't, we would still be living in caves clubbing animals over the head with big rocks.

Yadda yadda yadda.

-FFox

do we know which part of the brain actually governs morality? if it's something we could do without, why don't we? based on absolutely no fact, i would guess that losing (or never having) a part of the brain that is controlled through the subconscious would effect much more than morality, thus they may not have the elements of the brain that make the rest of us human. they may have the body of a man, but the brain of jumbo the train flattened elephant.

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