I think our moral system comes from our rolemodels and society, we learn from our parents and older brothers and sisters what is right and what is wrong, we learn at school and at our first job what is tolerated and what not.
On the inside we do have feelings but many people would steal and murder if they were not teached it is wrong.
Also society is what built the law.
You said "a human would feel pity for a wounded animal".
This might be true now, but not long ago when we simply killed to survive.
Now we get food from the stores and are no longer used to having to hunt ourselves, therefor we feel pity when we do see a wounded animal, but that is what society has done.
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I think our moral system comes from our rolemodels and society, we learn from our parents and older brothers and sisters what is right and what is wrong, we learn at school and at our first job what is tolerated and what not.
On the inside we do have feelings but many people would steal and murder if they were not teached it is wrong.
Also society is what built the law.
You said "a human would feel pity for a wounded animal".
This might be true now, but not long ago when we simply killed to survive.
Now we get food from the stores and are no longer used to having to hunt ourselves, therefor we feel pity when we do see a wounded animal, but that is what society has done.