ok, if I were to concur with that, then we're back to whose "good moral code"?
Mine? Yours? Larry Flynts? The Amish? The Communists? Osama? The Catholic Church? Scientologists?, Islamics? whose?
so I'd have to disagree with that statement because there is no "one single good moral code" -I am saying all morality is relative -
and as the word "good" as it applies to "moral code", is a judgment and the interpretation of the word changes with every person/country and the passage of time -
Relativism is "Different opinions, no one authority, and as many 'truths' as there are people or societies or cultures advancing different ways of doing things," says Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University.
Re:“Never let things which matter most be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
so then who determines "what matters most"? - I'm saying priorities too, are a judgment call -
ie, in Korea, "Kim" is starving his people because his priority is military power -
and as for following laws? - that is simply a choice, which becomes relative too -
I don't speed down the interstate - but it has nothing at all to do with morality - it's because I don't want the $300.00 ticket and the court time -
and I don't do drugs - not b/c I don't like them, but because my choice says the risk of being cuaght with then outways the benefit for me - I don't want to be arrested/ jailed -
so, it is an issue of consequences of breaking a law for me and not an issue of what is "morally correct"-