It does reject an absolute right and wrong, and wisely so in my opinion. What is derived from need and interest is not derived on a whim. The rest of the manifesto sets the context. We need food, water, and shelter, and our interests are comfort, love, power and success(plus a few more). What the s...

Try this moral code: http://americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III. Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience. Humanists ground values in human welfare shaped by human circumstances, interests, and concerns and extended to the global ecosystem and...

One of my cats has four names: Frank, Frankie, Franklin and Frank-E-Stein depending on his then current level of mischief making!

Interbane wrote:Why is no meat-eating often included in moral systems? The other rules are good...

It is most likely due to a belief in nonviolence.

Might

I think ~ Beethoven will endure Dostoyevsky will endure Einstein will endure and everything else that endures can be fit into these categories as need be. No offense to E.O. Wilson, as I have read one of his books and enjoyed it very much even if I cannot recall its title. Some things endure while o...

To the extent I am angry it is a result of my perception of God as being a failure whose actions in no way live up to the words. I think of it as a righteous anger, though for the most part I'm laid-back. You're angry at a metaphysical being you decided to anthropomorphize? The Word was made flesh....

To the extent I am angry it is a result of my perception of God as being a failure whose actions in no way live up to the words. I think of it as a righteous anger, though for the most part I'm laid-back.

Hay sometimes things really are simple! In addition though I think it's the case that we simply don't work as hard (or at least as well) as they did in days gone by. I mean, on the one hand jobs have been devalued, and in many cases what used to be fulltime "real" jobs are now parttime - a...