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DOGS? Dogs don't show real guilt you idiot. It's a form of obedience and fear. They role on their back and show their stomachs in an act of submission. Dogs are also very different from their 'wild' ancestors. Whatever signs of obedience they show is a result from being raised within a civilized household of humans. Honestly, do you think wild dogs in Africa are just the same as some fucking pug??Yes, other animals are actually capable of feeling guilt. Look it up on YouTube, there are videos of dogs clearly displaying guilt when they have don't something that is against their owners rules.
But that doesn't matter, every evolves in a different way, and even if it human evolution has been unique in that it includes the ability to feel guilt, it still includes the ability to feel guilt. And even if the ability to feel guilt only comes from religion, well religion only comes from humans evolution which originated the ability to create religion.
Even if it is a social construct as you say, society is an effect of human evolution. If humans did not evolve as we did then we would not have society as we have it.
Nothing that I have said values one course of evolution over another, I don't know where you got that but it wasn't from me. The only point I argued was that the origin of guilt comes from our course through evolution and the origin is not in any way in religion. If anything, guilt is the origin of religion.
My argument made plenty of sense. I'm not sure you even make an argument.
All evolution is about is getting enough food, avoiding predators, and procreating...there's nothing in any of that that would lead to guilt.
Also, guilt changes with society all the time. Did people feel guilty watching a man being burned to death several hundred years ago? Did they feel guilty brutally beating their wife and children? Those ideas of morality were developed very recently...nothing at all to do with evolution.
Finally, you're very wrong about religion. Every religion was created to explain this in nature that people themselves could not understand. For example, the ancient Egyptians thought the Sun was a living god.