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And "being happy" is often seen as a short-cut by way of bribery or chicanery. So, it is profoundly cultural. After all, taking a bribe isn't interfering with anyone...?
The average human also commits sin. Just about everything we DO is "cultural," because our actions are based on our beliefs about those actions. But talk of "the average human" is beside the point, when most of the grief is easily accomplished by a minority. Zambia excels in church attendance and piety. Doesn't stop the corruption at all. Nor does it dispel the fears of witchcraft. Or prevent men from cheating on their wives and/or beating them.
I don't think you understand that it takes a small minority of troublemakers to make an impact on millions.
How big is the Cabal to the general population?
How much has the Cabal lied to create the ILLUSION of a majority?
All you need is 100 thugs in the government to destroy a nation.
Of course I know that. I have made reference to the Bolsheviks in previous discussion.
But your numbers are fantasy small. You leave out all the fellow travelers in education, the media, local and state governments. And how did they get there? Because the culture places no actual value on the traditional virtues and principles, and therefore conservatives do not feel it is important to be involved in the details of civic life. Nothing more disgusting than to be involved in a union, whose members were likely half conservative in outlook, and listen to the complaint of a conservative member against the dominantly left-liberal union leadership. When posed with the question of running as a council rep, they turn it down as being not worth their time. I call that a worthless piece of shit---all talk, no feet. Conservatives need to own up to that failing and repent.
Human beings have a natural law that God has given us. God would not create a species that would become its predator.
So there are DEFAULT rules that were already given to all humans.
Go give 100,000 people a baseball bat and tell them to beat the hell out of a stranger. Do you think the majority would say yes???
Traditional Values just mean common sense like the 10 Commandments.
ALL humans want
Thou Shall Not Steal Thou Shall Not Kill Thou Shall Not Lie
There are two parts to human culture in my view.
There is a "nature-culture" that humans are automatically born with. Unless they are a mental/physical defect.
This is common sense as I mentioned above.
Then there is "extended culture" that operates in more superficial terms. Such as art, dance, food, hair, music, and innovation.
So when you say "It's culture".
In this case, it is not.
We are not talking about "extended culture" as I mentioned above. We are talking about "nature-culture" that is automatically inserted into the minds of our creators.
This is basic engineering.
Whenever you design something. You have to give it a basic foundation of rules.
Not killing and stealing is a basic foundational rule that God has already given us.
Well, he didn't originally, but thanks to sin, we have the propensity to become predators.
As for baseball bats, it greatly depends on where you are, who gets the bats, and who are the designated targets. In the Confederacy, slavery was an "institution." It didn't much matter whether the majority were in favor of it. I believe there was a thought-provoking university psychology experiment having to do with the willingness of students to anonymously inflict pain on a presumed subject, under the rubric that it was all for research. They went down the whole road, applying the electric shock until the subject was inert and unresponsive. (It was all an act, but the guy with the button didn't know that.)
I'm talking about the moral culture of behavior with respect to oneself and others. You are just trying to dodge this by word-wrangling. Are you saying God "inserted" sin? No, you wouldn't be that absurd. But you are failing completely to get human beings off the hook. God created man and woman perfectly. But they disobeyed and allowed themselves to partake of the knowledge of Good and Evil, which brought them into sin. And here we are, deep in our "nature culture," as you phrase it.
God gives us rules...and do we follow them? Seldom, and imperfectly. And does it save us? The answer was NO, which was the whole reason for the appearance of Christ and the vicarious expiation of our sins.
God is not an "engineer." He is a Creator, and that covers a lot more territory.
And in Zambia, it is in the culture of general behavior. No salesmen needed. Only customers.