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humanist moralitySubmitted by skeptic griggsy... on Wed, 2007-04-18 11:58.
Like science our humanist morality is provisional and debateable. It is contextual.It serves us,not a god.It is objective in so far as we discern what is good for humans, other animals and the enviornment,using Bentham's pleasure-pain principle.It springs from our evolved moral sense,with empathy included.Rather than us living of the religious morality, theists live off ours if they use reason and facts to do morals.Ignorant men of yore just made up,for the most part, commandments out of their subjectivity- their whims and tastes,such as stoning for working on the sabbath or what woment should do during the menstrual period.Reason and facts,with empathy, help us to do morals. ( categories: Morality & Meaning )
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