Dear Karen, You are such a trooper!
Solon, you're the one who needs to be a trooper if you propose to bring me around. We may simply be defining terms differently, as X says, in which case it may be easy to sort it out. If it's more than that, though, I'm not likely to make it easy on you.
Do you acknowledge the existence of the words "moral" and "principle", and do you acknowledge that they have a meaning?
Yes. I don't like the word "moral" much. Too much of a religious context. Gives me the willies. Also, too mired in tradition. I like the word "principle" a lot. I'm among the minority of people wired to operate primarily out of principle. Upper right brained, I am.
If you believe there are moral principles--could you give me an example--and a reason why it is both moral and a principle?
I posted an example of what I think you mean by a moral principle in a discussion with Tim--I try not to take more than my share.
It's one of my general operating rules, which makes it a principle.
It's moral because it conforms with the traditional societal sense of right behavior.
Would you give me an example of one human right, as you understand the term?
I don't think there's any such thing as a human right. I have rights as an American, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There are lots of humans who have different rights or no rights at all. The term "human rights" is currently used by those in the higher western cultures to try to ascribe to all people those rights that our forefathers fought for and that we have come to think of as givens.
How'd I do, teach?
Karen |
