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In the sense that one function of religion is to provide guidelines for one's behavior, that is, to provide an ethics framework, it may be in order to refer to Christianity here. … The revenge idea is the underlying ethics of the Old Testament. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is the central tenet. …

Especially ethics without a religious foundation seemed and still seems impossible to the faithful. …

I'll make my comment an answer. The founders only found it self-evident that male white humans of age were equal. Slaves, native Americans, women and children were denied what we today consider the mo …

You stumbled over the Socratic paradox. It is a classical example of the Dunning–Kruger effect: You need a certain minimal competence to begin to perceive your own degree of incompetence. Because real …

Whether, by contrast, somebody who really didn't know better and did something objectively bad can be faulted for it is probably one of the most fundamental ethics questions. …

But even if we consider heaven full of boring people (Nietzsche) desirable, the end of our life is the end of the validity of our mortal ethics, so this objection is doubtful. …

While the sentence was nominal and on probation, it was an important decision affirming the limits imposed on government interventions springing from the ethics underlying our legal system. …

I'm astonished that no answer seems to directly address the core issue: Humans are sentient beings. This is what distinguishes us from (other) animals, and what makes us valuable in each other's eyes. …

It is a tenet in psychology that people behave the way they do because it was the option that made them feel best at the time, overall. That is easy to see as the reason why people choose short-term p …

This is only one aspect of a possible answer, but I think an important one: In human (and some animal) brains exists a physiological facility which lets us "put ourselves in somebody else's shoes", m …

One conceivable scenario is akin to the impossibility defense in law: Are you guilty of a crime if you are trying to murder an already dead body, convinced they are alive? After all, this is factually …

It is the eminent Ray Kurzweil who has formulated the Law of Accelerated Returns: Technological progress is able to use the just-created, current technology. Technological progress happens at a rate c …

Merriam-Webster lists the three basic meanings of the word. At the most basic level, ego denotes that part of the perceiving and thinking entity which is not anything else. Little children as well as …

I'm not sure whether that's a philosophical answer but nature shows us ways vulnerable species protect themselves, even if they are physically and mentally inferior: Look cute to them. Ideally, look …