The U.S. is probably the most puritanical Western society on the planet. I believe the CoV is attempting to view and address the world in a less restrictive frame-work. To that end, I went off on a tangent that I occasionally like to rant about.
>...if there is no group standard for right/wrong good/evil - ie. no
>group standard for which courses of action are viable or not viable
>then there's no context for group action. This is not a position
>which we can sucessefully maintain. Group action has become a
>manifest necessity if we want this biosphere to remain amenable to
>the sustenance of conscious life.
>> Although any and all of us make our personal judgments, I don't
>> believe there is any true "right" or "wrong".
>
>-hypothetical question- Why shouldn't I kill you then?
Well more to the point, why should you kill me?? To win an argument? I hardly think so; too "whimpy" an approach for you. Is this beginning to make any sense at all? What I am advocating is a form of "self governing". I am not against maxims. I am not against a set of rules which define a social structure as a whole. What I am against is a bunch of rules for the sake of rules. And I am even more against pretty much anything which is going to encourage further "judgements". Personal opinions, yes. "Shoulds", no.
Roni