[deccan]

To Jack Simth:

Many of your objections to Imperator Fyron's statements seem to stem from the fact that secular systems of morality rely on assumptions that cannot be proven, correct?

However, there is one way around that. Sometimes assumptions don't have to be proven if everyone accepts them.

For example (just an example of course), if we can agree that every human life is important, then we can use that as a foundation stone on which to logically build other moral truths.

The general idea is that we might be able to agree on a relatively small core set of moral truths that the vast majority of people can agree on, without it having to be proven or justified by reference to some external source, and then slowly extend that core by an exercise of applying logical reasoning to accepted facts.

Granted, some proportion of people will always disagree with this core. Too bad, but this IS how the real world works, and while nitpicking of these sort bothers people who want philosophically pure systems, it doesn't really matter to ordinary people.

Yes, I realize that this is a feel-good approach as well, but I have no problems with it, and I doubt that most people do as well.