Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge. We were talking a little bit this week about morality, and in the discussion I had this thought I was I was thinking to myself you

know morality feels like an old way sometimes to me of dealing with technological problems that we don't have technology for.

Okay, so I'm going to pack that statement for a minute and actually tell you what I mean by that.

I remember back in the day when I used to be very religious I studied the Old

Testament in the Bible and there's a book in there called Leviticus and Leviticus

is basically the Jewish people at the time the Hebrew people at the time, the Hebrew people at the time, had a list of codified laws that God had essentially, according to their legend and story, had given to them about what was appropriate and what was not appropriate.

And when you read through the book of Leviticus,

it reads like a very weird piece of literature.

It talks about things like if you're bleeding

or how you dispose of your you know your biological

waste from your body all these different laws and rules and they're basically

codified into a moral set of how to deal with things in life.

Like if you go to the bathroom,

you have to bury it so far outside the camp.

If you are menstruating, you've got to throw away

the rags you use during that experience

or burn them, or there's all these different rules and things of how to do stuff and as I was thinking about that I was thinking you know that was probably a way and this is not my original thought we there's talk about this in Christian circles. It was a way that God was protecting the people of Israel

against bacteria and disease and viruses through a moral code of how to deal with things, right? And then I was thinking, I wonder if that's been

through the ages. I wonder if we've had this kind of thing come up. And here, if you look back

through moral issues throughout history, you'll see that often they were created, these moral

stances were created to deal with lack of technology. For example, this idea of

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