Incanus
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As sanchia said, it's all just varying degrees of difference and similarity. This is the dispassionate, scientific approach to all such matters. It is also the only way that makes absolute sense and stands to reason, as it's a sound conclusion reached through logic. Furthermore, it is the kind of liberating approach that some human societies still tend to overlook, preferring instead to cite the Romans, the Greeks, the Byzantines, the Ottoman Turks conquering Constantinople, the Bible in its various editions and translations, and so on.
Moral codes are about regulating and governing a given human community, even when there's legislation present of a political nature. Assigning moral descriptors to certain and all patterns of human behaviour lies in their core: doing this is good and should be rewarded, while practising that is bad and should be punished.
The primary purpose of this is to regulate the distribution of power and the exercise of authority in a given society. On the one hand, you have those who possess the power and the authority to deal reward or punishment, and on the other, there are those who receive reward or punishment, although an individual may simultaneously belong to either group according to the pattern of behaviour in question; for instance, one may belong to the moral majority on the matter of gambling, but on the moral minority on the matter of sexual behaviour. Being part of the majority gives one the power to oppress (in various ways, ranging from very palpable to very abstract ways), while being part of the minority incurs having to suffer a range of effects, whose nature is determined by time, social ethics, and so on.
If you think about it, each one of us falls into several categories according to how one behaves. I can't see why we should let beliefs of ages long gone govern the distribution of social power in our modern society and just continue to make people miserable. Doubtless, moral principles whose origin lies in the past do survive in each nation's legislation. However, I'm not referring to this. I just can't see why this or that should be assigned a moral descriptor, from which assignment may derive various, very real consequences (e.g. discrimination, mindless hate, etc.), when it would be far more productive to just stick to reason and common sense.
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