Posted: Jul 28, 2014 8:25 am
zoon wrote: My view is that being able to think about and discuss these matters without coercion from other people is a fundamental level of personal freedom, it’s the atheist version of freedom of religion. We can survive without it; many religious societies enforce conformity to their dogmas, but this enforced conformity is always liable to lead to stultification and inability to innovate at any level, because when you clamp down on the basics, clamping down on everything else tends to follow.
I like this as an idea. Whatever anyone says we appear to be programmed to explore the nature of our existence, to seek justification for our actions etc. Without this we would have no moral code and no society, but there are no rules that cannot be revised.