Betrayal Is at Root of World's Problems

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Not long ago I read an article by an anthropologist. He had traveled the world and studied hundreds of cultures looking for a "tabu" that was common to all of them. He found that sexual tabus varied from tribe to tribe. Theft wasn't even universally frowned upon. But what was considered a tabu everywhere he went was "betrayal."

Betraying someone's trust was the only universal "sin" he could find.

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Betrayal Is at Root of World's Problems

As I've thought about that, I think I would turn his findings around. I believe that everything societies consider a sin -- from ro...

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