Many thoughts of right and wrong are programmed into us. Most in fact. This all comes down to social protocol. Most of which was based off of religious doctrines or alterations of such things. Protocol and etiquette of societies are ingrained into our brains.
Some concepts of right and wrong are natural instinct, but most of them are completely social, yet we accept them as valid because they become a part of our subconscious. This is a form of hypnosis. You are in a hypnotic trance when you are driving to work, for example. You are on autopilot. Yet everything you see is registered into your subconscious to some extent. This happens to us many times of day. As we're watching tv, we are programmed with things we see. Skinny girls are desirable, tenor saxophone music is an aphrodisiac, sex is a priority in society, death is a terrible scary thing to always be feared, etc. And over time we accept these things.
It's no different with morals. Most of you would likely tell me that it's wrong to kill a cute little puppy. Our natural human instinct would have no problem killing a cute little puppy if we existed only in the state of nature. We wouldn't see it as cute, first of all. Animals are cute, because society tells us that certain things are cute and we accept it and truly believe it. If there was no society, we would not have such logic.
Killing "innocent" animals would not bother us in general. We would have no reason to do so unless it was imperative to our survival. And if we happened to accidentally kill a puppy, we would not be phased by it, however if one of us were to do that now, many of us would likely feel bad.
This is the whole basis on my theory that there are core "right and wrongs" that are hard-wired into our brains as out natural instinct. Our self protection is naturally our first priority, followed by the protection of our families. Outside of that (and perhaps some other basic instinctive tendencies) right and wrong is determined by society, which was built largely on religious values.
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