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Morality differs in every society, and it is a convenient term of socially approved habits. Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (1934) Human morals and morality have been pondered for hundreds of years by some of the most enlightened people in human existence. Morals are defined by the culture in which you are born. People's way of life, their cultural customs, and social norms differ greatly across the earth. People's morals are different in every society because cultures are all something that have evolved over time; changing with each generation within a society. After thousands of years of existence and hundreds of evolved languages, cultures have evolved different value systems or moral codes for living and communicating; all of which are referred to as morality. As human's we strive for perfection for something better then what we've got currently. It is amusing how we as humans strive for something non-existent, unknown and completely foreign to us. In achieving this foreign......

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