> Things like the Golden Rule, for example, can be deduced logically to generally be in all of our interests. By that do you mean you present a theory about wh

> Things like the Golden Rule, for example, can be deduced logically to generally be in all of our interests. By that do you mean you present a theory about why people behave the way they do (whether or not they know it)? Or do you mean you can logically deduce the way people should behave? > As I said in my original comment, ethics can be reconstructed without superstition. Again, by that do you mean a description of what is observed or a normative proscription for behavior? Because I don’t see how the latter is possible without assuming meaning or purpose, which you would seemingly describe as “superstition”.