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2.2.25

religious fanatics are not moral people

I have wondered a long time why religious fanatics are not moral people. I mean this in terms of what you might say is common human decency. The answer I think is that every area of value has an opposite area of value. The way to understand this is I think by means of the system of Leonard Nelson and Kelley Ross. You start with the insight of Kant that there are much of what we see as objective reality (but not all) has subjective aspects. And objective morality also has subjective aspects—but not all. There still is a core bedrock of right and wrong that does not depend on what people think, but on what is truly right and wrong. People often get mixed up by thinking that their personal goals and feeling equal objective morality. And this happens most often among religious and political fanatics