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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: TimF who wrote (5405)1/9/2017 2:53:05 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 356864
 
I agree about the risk of every moral controversy being raised to a human rights issue. Re morality, at one time I refused to use that word because it had a heavily religious connotation. I would use ethics, instead. I recall writing about that somewhere here on SI. A few years ago for some reason long forgotten I Googled "Christian morality." I got pages and pages of returns every single one as far down as I had the patience to page being about sex. No mention of lying or cheating or stealing or all that other supposedly sinful stuff.

Maybe five years ago I discovered Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory, which is all inclusive and neatly synthesized and categorized. It subsumes various cultures' morality. So I'm now comfortable using the word, morality. On the rare occasions when I need to make a moral determination, I just consider if and how each of the foundations applies. Tidy.
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