| Slimebeast said: I know you never called yourself a humanist on these forums but I imagined that you would imagine yourself to be a humanist if one would ask you IRL. Your last paragraph is key. And yes most people do this (elevate their personal morals). There's an alternative conclusion to the one you drew though. Why is this impulse so strong within us, the fact that so many people hold their morals up to an absolute? Why is it so hard for us to tolerate different opinions on our core moral issues? I can't see the necessity to evolve such a strong moral sense so quickly. And about different morals, actually when it comes to core morals we have the same morals. Why is the world evolving its common morals to the Human Rights that we agree upon universally, no matter if you're atheist or religious. Human Rights = absolute morals. |
Human rights aren't absolute morals. They're just morals that are fairly universally agreed upon in the Western world. In the Middle East they believe in quite a different set of morals, hence why they made their own version of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam
