Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
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