Moral standards

[downbeatplumb]

From the society we live in.

In some parts of Pakistan it is "moral" to kill your daughter for looking at a boy.

It was Moral to burn the wives of dead men.

It is moral in some backwards communities for women to keep completely covered at all times so men aren't inflamed and wont rape them.

Secular societies tend to be less repressive and generally nicer places to live.

Oh and Hi by the way, I think this is our first dance.

Are you saying that those things are moral based on the location and time in which they occurred?

Not to me but to the backwards societies that cling to superstitious beliefs in higher beings and not in the golden rule..."don't be a dick"

Surely, you and I would disagree with such a relativistic stance and would look to a standard that carries through time and can be applied to all situations equally.

If we followed the "don't be a dick" rule we could. To do this of course we would first have to discard all religious texts, they are all full of commandments that break the golden rule.