(November 9, 2016 at 3:17 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: There is no moral authority beyond the individual's conscience. Churches may seem to be an exception, yet people still pick and choose the maxims they embrace based on their individual conscience. Sometimes that conscience says to defer one's moral prerogatives to another. However the power flows from the individual to the putative authority.
Good thing I'm not arguing in favour of established religions.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle