[MD] The Moral Landscape

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Mark, previously]
> In my opinion the highest quality of such morality is non-interference.

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If instead you consider the highest quality of morality being
"Do no harm", then you're off to a better start. Because if someone is 
doing no harm, there is no obligation to interfere with them. As such
the non-interference rule is derived from one more basic.

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[Mark]
> My point was that it is the phenomenon of leaders and followers
> that create the notion of immorality (or morality)...
> Leaders are to blame for wars and fomenting hate,
> not the general populace. But there would not be leaders
> without followers.

IMHO you're dealing with the symptoms instead of curing the disease.
Sure there are leaders like Stalin & Mao, but there are also leaders
like Socrates & Gandhi. Substitute "role-model" for leader & you get
a different perspective. The problem lies not in the relationship
between leader & follower or role-model and emulator, but in the values
each of these hold.

Craig