We are born utterly selfish and relentlessly self centered. Have you ever been around two year olds?
A system of binding moral awareness does not just pop into our minds at random.
They are taught to and inculcated in us largely by parents and society. Our parents got them from our grandparents, who got them from our great grandparents, etc. etc.
Our moral awareness is history within us, and to some significant extent that awareness has been passed directly or indirectly by the Muslim, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, or Judeo-Christian system of ethics our culture was steeped in, depending on the geography of where we were born.
Abject selfishness is not widely respected in this society, in Hindu society, in Muslim society, in Buddhist societies, or in Jewish societies.
In fact, it is widely considered reprehensible.
A cohesive moral vision does not ensure everyone acts on it. We are born with free will. But it generally imposes a price to pay: social sanction, loss of respect, etc
I asked what binding and cohesive ethical creed they adopted.
What you posted isn't it. This so called manifesto says ethics are relative, utilitarian, and strictly up to individuals to decide upon.
I have always been on Team Plato,Human Manifesto III
"Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist_Manifesto
and not on Team Protagoras.
Protagoras famously said man is the measure of all things -- aka, everything is relative to man and his conventions.
Plato thought there were universal moral truths we could perceive and understand through commitment and the proper use of our mental faculties.
The 2021 book “Secular Surge,” by a trio of prominent political scientists, says “secular” core values include freethinking, logic and reason — rather than received authority — human experience and the laws of nature. Secularism, notably, is not defined by opposition to religious identity or practices. By this definition, a quarter of Americans now have a secular worldview, the researchers contest, and events such as the pandemic could speed along the birth of a secular political left, not unlike the early days of the religious right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/relig...eligion-nones/
In other cultures they’re firm believers of interfaith marriage or it ends up as . . . .
Femicide is generally understood to involve intentional murder of women because they are women,
but broader definitions include any killings of women or girls. This information sheet focuses on the
narrower definition commonly used in policies, laws and research: intentional murder of women.
What’s on your head? I’m spinning my wheels.
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