Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-3581997-20150905032118/@comment-3581997-20150905091005

No. There are no such myths that validate any such things, the point of such tales is just to recognize that some deeds are worse than others. Just because chopping your kid up for food is wrong doesn't mean you can go doing it to the local charity work you barely know, just that one is worse than the other by the standards of society.

Understand neither killing a family member nor blowing up a hospital is good. But you know your family so killing a member displays a greater amount of overcoming morality. Peter Parker would have felt bad no matter who the robber he refused to stop killed but what makes it all the more bitter for him is his Uncle Ben was the victim.

The brain is the center of morality for humans and the central R center of it is concerned with primitive behavior preferences encoded in us from our communal memory, things like the importance of family. Overcoming that programming takes a lot of resolve one way or the other. If you kill a family member who is doing something reprehensible it takes a lot more resolve than that of killing a random civilian you find doing something morally reprehensible. This also means it takes a lot more concentrated effort to hurt a family member just for the evils than it does to hurt a stranger just for the evils.