http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/05/28/should-people-be-held-morally-responsible-for-not-rising-above-their-culture/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Thu, 23 May 2013 10:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/05/28/should-people-be-held-morally-responsible-for-not-rising-above-their-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 Zach Sun, 30 May 2010 10:53:24 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1547#comment-1395 Or, where are the limits to this? Is it okay to “initiate force” against an animal that you are about to eat?

]]> http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/05/28/should-people-be-held-morally-responsible-for-not-rising-above-their-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Zach Sun, 30 May 2010 10:52:20 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1547#comment-1394 We could judge others by that principle, but that doesn’t mean that that principle held through time and space. Think of holy wars, for example.

]]> http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/05/28/should-people-be-held-morally-responsible-for-not-rising-above-their-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 ed42 Fri, 28 May 2010 19:15:01 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1547#comment-1387 Can we not have a universal (in all times and all places) moral ‘minimum’ to which to judge the actions of others? I’m thinking something like the non-aggression principle (‘Do not initiate force nor fraud’) ought to be universal.

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