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Curious where you draw your morals from...
by martin1975 9y ago
Curious where you draw your morals from...
- freedomben 9y agoThis is a fantastic question. I tend to vacillate on this, and thus do not have as firm a foundation as I would personally like. However being honest with myself I have a lot of questions for which there are no easy answers. However what I haven't really waivered on is my resonance with Enlightenment values, especially John Stuart Mill. I like a lot of what Michael Shermer has to say regarding a scientific basis for morality. He has a book called The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom which I find quite interesting. Ultimately this may be the best ground on which to attack my argument, since it is a tripartite argument and one of those is based on morality. I will cede that the argument from morality is subjective, and ultimately some form of argument from authority which is a weak case.
- martin1975 9y agoDon't take this the wrong way... your manner of speaking about this strikes me as very authoritarian.