In his book Human Universals anthropologist Donald Brown lists more than four hundred behaviors that he considers common across humanity He includes such things as toys jokes dances and proverbs wariness of snakes and tying things with string Likewise he believes all cultures have concepts of right and wrong where generosity is praised promises valued and things like meanness and murder understood to be wrong We all have a sense of conscience wherever we rsquo re from The apostle Paul made a similar point many centuries ago While God gave the Jewish people the Ten Commandments to clarify right from [... more]