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Human Ethics and Self-Restraint;; The Common Moral Standards of the 70 Post-Diluvian Nations.

The question of what is ethical has an important answer that relates directly to the continuity of current languages and instiutions. When Adolf Eichmann was on trial in Yerushalayim, his defence argued that he had broken no laws, and was thus not criminally responsible for his scheduling of the death trains in the Third Reich. The laws of nations have attempted to answer this question, from the laws of B'nai Noach to the constitution of the Mesopotamian state of Iraq. The Talmud provided a restatement of the laws of B'nai Noach. The RaMBaM in Muslim-occupied Andalusia stated that the law against murder prohibited murder of the unborn. These laws would benefit every society and ruling institution in the earth. These principles are based on the common standards of ethics prevalent before the Homecoming of Avraham out of Mesopotamia. After the great deluge, the eight survivors were commanded to exit the ark. Noach was commanded to bring all the living things out of the ark, so that they could swarm and multiply. HaShem made a promise to humankind that While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. The human survivors were commanded not to drink blood. The Almighty instituted capital punishment, and commanded the eight survivors to multiply and swarm in the Earth. The Human Race learns to respect physical privacy, and is divided into 70 languages when the dictator Nimrod tried to usurp his Creator's sovreignty. Yosef the patriarch kept the commandment regarding physical privacy, and ultimately became Prime Minister of Eretz Mizraim.