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Much of modern morality/ethics comes from Christianity, though the links become more tenuous with time. Modern morality also owes much to several other influences. One source people find hard to believe is an influence is the morality which comes from TV.

Much of our morality is an inherited thing. We don't all rewrite morality despite our parents or grandparents. I remember when I was young I disliked much of my father's ways and swore I would never be like him, but as a grown up I recognize both the logic in his behavior and my own unconscious imitations of him. That's the way of many things, personality, morality, etc. We inherit a lot and we make up some of it as our own persons. It matters little what our parents religion was, the morality usually rubs off regardless.

As with many things human, inheritances go back a long way until they are finally diluted enough to be amost unrecognizable. This is true of looks, diseases, pathologies, physiology and many things, so why not also morality/ethics?

I believe it's a total nature + nurture + environment combination. For the nature side, I know I've always tuned to things which aligns with my own morality as I'm sure other people do also. From observing my own kids, I'm convinced we are born with some of our programming already in place. Nurturing and our enviroment are add-ons. They may be big add-ons, but I believe we start with anything other than a blank slate. And in the first few years, we absorb more than just how to walk and talk. The whole framework of how we live has its foundation in those forgotten years. Yet we think ourselves more intelligent than our initiation into the world.

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Zoroastrian

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Very good Kimo Sabe.

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the Persian Hakamanisheeya

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Are you talking about the oriental Kabala, where a deity is sometimes described as Hakama, supremely wise beyond our comprehension?

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a fascinating study

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It certainly is Ollie.
Of all the periods in history, this is one of the ones I would love to visit.