RE: Humanist Ten Commandments
November 2, 2013 at 1:02 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2013 at 1:04 am by Walking Void.)
As much as I see the... "beauty" in the message of a document like this, I do not subscribe absolutely to synthetic laws, rules, or norms. Even if I agree to every single line. Anyone can (un)intentionally practice what these requests preach, so I (and anyone really) can find them to be subjective information. The other thing I notice is that it caters to certain behaviours. Namely, these are people who are critically-inclined and/or affectionate. Even if I can appreciate these "commandments", they might only serve as doctrine. No public document, religious or not, is off limits to me. If these commandments are what the group values (humanists), they are not what humanity values. In contrast, humanity values human rights. Globally. Even if some do not subscribe to human rights, they will be motivated to, whether legally or not, as countries amend these rights into their national law. And that was my 2 cents.
