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Originally Posted by Paradise Lost
If you're looking for a universal set of ethic principles, you would first have to toss aside
any societal influences. Societies come up with their own rules and standards usually
with much basis on historical values, religious, etc. This would put the entire system
to moot if we took their values into consideration since, in finding a universal set, their
values do not matter.
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That's interesting, my initial reaction was actually just the opposite.
People, on their own, will always come up with different values.
Society is the force that homogenizes and socializes individuals to hold shared values and beliefs. The only way to achieve a "universal" set of ethics would be to have a truly universal and homogenous society to socially instill and enforce them.