HaShev
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You just described my neighbor who never knew the teachings of Judaism. So is his self serving, self satisfaction whatever feels good without care or consequence or feeling of guilt a result of realizing his upbringing is bogus or just an undeveloped frontal lobe making him a sociopath incapable of good sound social choices within the societal norms?Elaborating on my prior point, I posit that MEN ARE EVIL BY NATURE.
Without an intervening force, humans will be selfish, cruel (even sadistic), avaricious, violent, unforgiving, and reproductively/carnally irresponsible. The proof is all around us. Look at the behavior that characterizes our worst ghettos: theft, drug abuse, physical abuse, violent crime, rampant irresponsible sexual behavior, endemic sloth, rejection of education and other personal development. These are manifestations of Man in his natural state.
And so it is instructive and valuable to identify people and communities that are antithetical to this natural state, to see what drives the "abnormal" behaviors of kindness, consideration, modesty, sexual fidelity, almsgiving, hard work, persistence, reverence for knowledge, and so forth. USUALLY, some form of "religion" is largely responsible.
And if a religion fails to result, generally, in these sorts of behaviors, then one could say that it "fails" as a religion.
For a contrast to my ugly portrayal of modern judaism above, look at LDS. It is theologically preposterous, but it seems to spawn all of the positive behaviors and attitudes mentioned above.
P.S. Did someone above imply that judaism teaches REINCARNATION? Or did I misinterpret?
His brothers all died young (as he is dying in his 30's too) and they all lived wretched lives, so most likely in his case bad religion (saved by an idol teachings) and bad codling parents who spoiled and ill prepared them with normal social behavior, thus making them socially inept and addicts.