What's a "Highground?" 
The only absolute morality is zero-state, local to the individual. Any cat with half a brain cell can see that "morality" in terms of culture must be relative; considering something like a god, the ends always justify the means. Peeps don't go there because of social evolution; game playing and spin doctoring. In words, it's all a popularity contest until the unwritten line is crossed and the dictatorial standard is breached and a new paradigm moves forward with the force of inertia. That's the only way "names" such as Santorum and Perry cross my conscious worldview; carried on the wings of idiocy by the sheeple for whom thought is the undiscovered country...
But "morality" in itself is chemical intelligence - I'm sure of it, and the science is catching up - so while we may be able to dismiss the symptom, I do not feel we can ever rid ourselves of the disease. Much better, in my book, to understand what it is and how it can be made to work to the benefit of all.
And atheists always have the moral high ground, in my view. By removing the idolatry of "god," one must then base "right" upon observation and experimentation. Right becomes logic and compassionate ethics, and wrong becomes ignorance and pandering to the hive mind in thrall to idols.
The only absolute morality is zero-state, local to the individual. Any cat with half a brain cell can see that "morality" in terms of culture must be relative; considering something like a god, the ends always justify the means. Peeps don't go there because of social evolution; game playing and spin doctoring. In words, it's all a popularity contest until the unwritten line is crossed and the dictatorial standard is breached and a new paradigm moves forward with the force of inertia. That's the only way "names" such as Santorum and Perry cross my conscious worldview; carried on the wings of idiocy by the sheeple for whom thought is the undiscovered country...
But "morality" in itself is chemical intelligence - I'm sure of it, and the science is catching up - so while we may be able to dismiss the symptom, I do not feel we can ever rid ourselves of the disease. Much better, in my book, to understand what it is and how it can be made to work to the benefit of all.
And atheists always have the moral high ground, in my view. By removing the idolatry of "god," one must then base "right" upon observation and experimentation. Right becomes logic and compassionate ethics, and wrong becomes ignorance and pandering to the hive mind in thrall to idols.
