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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7980450" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The universal evils, things considered wrong in almost every culture, are few, but profound. All of them, historically, originate in a limitation of &quot;people&quot; to one's coreligionists in the same civil/cultural identity...Murder - intentional and unjustified killing.Adultery/sodomy - sex acts outside the cultural norm for the local cultureBlasphemy - teaching counter to the local religious majority normTheft from a person - taking another &quot;person's&quot; things. This includes their spouses and childrenFalse speaking - telling a lie to a &quot;person&quot;Apostasy - changing one's faith away from the local majority religion, especially to a foreign one.Mistreatment of chattels - which usually includes children and slaves, and in many cultures, women as well.Sloth - being able to work but instead relying upon others to work for you.that last is interesting, because all the religions I've read which consider it a major sin also require almsgiving to the infirm and insane; either directly or through the church and/or state (which often were in fact the same, and when they weren't the same, were often in cahoots). All I've studied consider it wrong. When setting building, the question of who is included in &quot;people&quot; is a huge factor. Most real world cultures have categories other than chattels and &quot;real people&quot; - often, only the elites and the citizens were legally protected, while the lesser folk were only protected from each other....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 7980450, member: 6779310"] The universal evils, things considered wrong in almost every culture, are few, but profound. All of them, historically, originate in a limitation of "people" to one's coreligionists in the same civil/cultural identity... Murder - intentional and unjustified killing. Adultery/sodomy - sex acts outside the cultural norm for the local culture Blasphemy - teaching counter to the local religious majority norm Theft from a person - taking another "person's" things. This includes their spouses and children False speaking - telling a lie to a "person" Apostasy - changing one's faith away from the local majority religion, especially to a foreign one. Mistreatment of chattels - which usually includes children and slaves, and in many cultures, women as well. Sloth - being able to work but instead relying upon others to work for you. that last is interesting, because all the religions I've read which consider it a major sin also require almsgiving to the infirm and insane; either directly or through the church and/or state (which often were in fact the same, and when they weren't the same, were often in cahoots). All I've studied consider it wrong. When setting building, the question of who is included in "people" is a huge factor. Most real world cultures have categories other than chattels and "real people" - often, only the elites and the citizens were legally protected, while the lesser folk were only protected from each other.... [/QUOTE]

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