If it doesn't matter, then we may as well have slaves on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and free them on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, with wild card Sundays.
I didn't say it didn't matter. I said it matters because we decided that it matters, not because natural law declares that it matters. Ascribing any issue of human morality to a force outside humans evades the issue. When we face a problem, do we ask ourselves "what is the natural law governing this subject" or "what, under these unique circumstances, should I do"?
It is up to us to make our laws, and to change them when we see that they are wrong. Nature doesn't do it for us.
Shall we think and decide, or shall we obey? |
