Patrick Elliott wrote:
> In article <4753b011$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
>> Tim Cook wrote:
>>> Ethics is almost entirely 
>>> arbitrary, aside some fundamental survival derivatives.
>> I would disagree, but that's OK.
>>
> I would disagree too. You don't learn ethics by someone *telling* you 
> that its bad, you do so by testing the boundaries of what, first, you 
> parents allow, then society, and concluding, based on evidence, that 
> there are **consequences** for acting unethically. Its only arbitrary in 
> the sense that "sometimes" the rules are based on irrational projections 
> of imaginary consequences, or misinterpretations of the magnitude, 
> nature, existence or even the actual cause of real consequences.
> 
That is not ethics, that is culture. You learn ethics by finding out why 
the universe exist and what it's ultimate goal is. Use that as a basis 
to explain mankind's existence and its final purpose. From that you can 
derive what you as a person should do. At least that is how I did it 
(granted, I still have to fill in some minor details).

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