-----Original Message-----
From: KPJ <kpj@sics.se>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 January 1999 17:33
Subject: Rational base for morals
>It appears as if Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>|
>|Can you tell me how I can, in good faith, follow a moral code when I
believe
>|there is no logical reason to do so?
>|Especially when nobody has yet even managed to come up with a logical
>|objection to rape (which pretty much everyone on the planet admits is an
>|abbhorence (sic)).
>
>I suggest that the meme rules of conduct be commutative.
>
>Commutativity: If the rule is "X shall not perform act P on Y"
> then also the rule "Y shall not perform act P on X" shall hold.
>
>Simply put: "A rule apply to all in the same manner."
>
>If you postulate this basic rule of commutativity
>then you would conclude:
> "If X does not want Y to perfom act P on X
> then X should avoid to perform act P on Y."
> [e.g. to avoid retaliation]
>
>Simply put: "Do not to others what you do not wish them do to you."
>
>Avoid microwaving children. Others may dislike it and microwave you in
turn.
Samael