May 1 2012: How? All this fancy arguing for what? How could you possibly move towards a unified moral code? That removes the human element. Your running away from your pain. Blaming the way the world works for whatever happened to you. But you can't decide that human mistakes should be eliminated, that injustice should be eliminated, to do so would also eliminate the human race.
May 1 2012: That depends on where you source the moral code. Maybe it is true that people are born with the understanding that an act such as murder is amoral; I think it is more likely that we collectively realize, at least at first, that we value our own lives thus that mass murdery rampage I was planning for later this week doesn't sound so appealing anymore. A better question might be 'do we want to unify our moral code?' I would think not. If we scale it back to the example of polygamy, what harm does it bring to you if I want to have 6 beautiful wives to perform glorious lesbian acts with? None at all! You may even get a few utils out of it! It seems a misguided endeavor to seek to unify a person's respective moral code. How is that any different from wanting to bring the plague that is christianity to the world? Let people be people, let them do wrong and learn.
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