Thesis.
Part 1 - Our Old Way of Thinking
Let us define the planet Earth as being our immediate environment, and the Universe, our extended environment.
We are creatures living on Earth, which is one planet among many other planets that constitute our solar system. Our solar system is one among millions of other systems that constitute our galaxy, and our galaxy is one among billions of others comprising our universe. For time immemorial, we have observed to understand how our universe works. Some of us understand it works by the hand of a God or Gods, and some understand it works by a Big Bang. We all have our different understandings. Anywhere in the world you can find a human settlement, who have their own understanding of how the universe works, there, begins a new human culture.
‘The Law’ is our present way of thinking.
As humans, we are an animal species, intelligent, but nonetheless, animals. Though our intelligence has done much to distinguish us in behaviour from other animal species, we however still harbour elements of our primal nature. As every other creature, we fear pain, suffering and death, from which we have developed a natural response to preserve ourselves from excruciating circumstances in our environments, at whatever costs. We seek to survive, even if other creatures must die. We seek food and shelter, even if we must dispossess other creatures. This way of thinking, for any animal species, is evolutionary and faultless, but for an intelligent species with the dream of a utopia, it has its drawbacks.
Our moral standards are constructs developed from our moral values.
A moral value is a system of thought we discover to make our lives better. It begins with having a purpose or quest. When we journey on fulfilling a purpose, consciously or unconsciously, any actions or behaviours we discover to fulfil that purpose, we count them as being good, and any behaviours in obstruction to that purpose, we count them as being bad. Through fulfilling purpose, we measure what is right and wrong for us, or righteous and sinful, from which we develop our moral values to living better lives.
Our human cultures define an abomination as any action, behaviour, occurrence, or event, that can render extinct a community.
If the planet Earth were a community in equal context as our human communities, something abominable to it would be an asteroid impact, global warming, or the killing of endangered species crucial to our ecosystem, all of which any person found not working to avoid or prevent, would receive the death sentence.
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