[ExI] morality

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Tue May 16 18:47:13 UTC 2023


On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 19:25, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of how to build a moral system.  What should be the basic assumptions?  Start with the Bill of Rights?  Certainly a good place.
>
> Another is this from Pope John xxiii: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem.html
> I ran across this in Feynmann's book.
> Certainly more detailed than the Bill of Rights.
>
> Then I got to thinking:  who are the authors I occasionally re-read because they are just so sane.  Feynman, Robert Fulghum (Unitarian minister), Matthew Ridley, Stephen Pinker, Montaigne, Twain.  Who are your sane people?  bill w
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Not another moral system!   It is hard work already, thinking up
excuses for breaking our present moral codes.  ;)
You also need a selection of punishments for various breaches of the moral code.
Then you require judges and enforcers as well.
And what about some method of inflicting the new moral code on unbelievers?
A new moral system is much more fun if we can use it to really annoy
other people and nations!

BillK


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