- Man is programmed not only with the desire for social living, but also with the characteristics required to establish a society, and thus certain basic ethical principals are common to all human societies and communities, as if they were all patterned after a single prototype. In a primitive society, these will simply be moral rules, while in a national alliance, these rules will be legislated laws. Thus, all human societies show concern for the weaker members of their society. This trait is common also among dolphins and even among far less developed creatures. Pigeons take turns watching over their eggs and they feed their fledglings until they learn how to fly. All human societies forbid murder and theft and expect their members to honor their promises. Man's right to life and to having promises made to him honored are universal rights, rights which by definition obligate all people not to murder and to keep their promises.