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You can point to our common human nature, that despite coming from various socio-economic backgrounds and cultures, human beings manifest that there is a common law of God written on our hearts, i.e., our consciences (see Rom. 2:14-16), that we can know basic right from wrong precisely because we’re human.
For example, even though they likely made themselves vulnerable to great physical punishment from radical Muslim men in Egypt, Muslim women wearing burkas interceded to save the life of a CBS reporter who had been sexually assaulted by a mob. Based on their culture and religion that sometimes can be expressed in extreme ways, some might have expected these Muslim women to join in the beating of this “infidel woman,” or at least step away for fear of reprisals from the many menacing Muslim men gathered, especially later on when the Western media would not be around to report on their punishment. Instead, like the Good Samaritan who acted more righteously than a couple of devout Jewish leaders despite his (the Samaritan’s) espousing some heretical religious beliefs (Luke 10:25-37), these women illustrated that we are all made in God’s image and likeness (Gen. 1:26-27) and thus are capable of knowing and choosing right from wrong, including doing so in courageous circumstances.
For more on how belief in God better enables mankind to know and anchor themselves in the natural moral law than disbelief in God does see Trent Horn’s related article. See also Karlo Broussard shorter presentation on the same subject.