RE: Are religions that preach inequality for women and gays, traitors to their country?
January 25, 2021 at 6:31 pm
It would be more difficult to find a moral tenet that hadn't changed. All of the things you're criticizing the faithful for, for example, used to be seen as virtues. For some, they still are.
It's an open question, really, whether moral tenets do or don't refer to something more than instinct, and what that is, if they do. We tend to make the assumption that they refer to more significant content - but regardless of the answer to any of that...they do change, don't you think? Have you always had the exact moral thoughts and positions that you do now? Just in our own lives these things can change, I can't imagine how we would see them as unchanging in society or over time.
Don't harm, do help. There you go - that's my entire moral philosophy. Sometimes that means treating others far..faaaaar worse than I would like to be treated, but it also carries a commitment to doing more for others than I expect (or even want) of others for me.
It's an open question, really, whether moral tenets do or don't refer to something more than instinct, and what that is, if they do. We tend to make the assumption that they refer to more significant content - but regardless of the answer to any of that...they do change, don't you think? Have you always had the exact moral thoughts and positions that you do now? Just in our own lives these things can change, I can't imagine how we would see them as unchanging in society or over time.
Don't harm, do help. There you go - that's my entire moral philosophy. Sometimes that means treating others far..faaaaar worse than I would like to be treated, but it also carries a commitment to doing more for others than I expect (or even want) of others for me.
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