Reply #21: I would say they are [View All]

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broadly shared by most people across cultures and throughout pre-/history. The core human values tend to stay the same even if the situational ethics that support those values have to change according to new conditions. "Reverence for life" would be shared across cultures both nomadic and agricultural, but the specific customs that nomads use to revere life would be quite different than the customs farmers use for the same purpose because each type of society gains sustenance differently.

With that in mind, a number of (perhaps most) great cultures throughout time have each produced at least a semi-formal humanistic tradition within them, characterized by a focus on pretty much the same universal values.

There are also a large number of other values and customs that aren't as crucial, ranging from "very helpful" to "neutral" to "detrimental", that appear more spuriously in human societies.