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Which Angle
You know it is interesting because I have posed this dilemma to two friends of mine that are physics Phds from Caltech (clearly a lot smarter than I am). And not surprizingly they are both Atheists. They both immediately conceded that there is no such thing as common morality in a Godless universe. They believe morality is completely relative depending on the culture or whatever. They both think the idea of international human rights as a joke. They both insist, that in the end, all morality comes down to is self interest (as other people on this board insist). So every moral stance they take, or every political position they argue, comes down to self interest. One of them donates to Amnesty international and he gave me what I thought was a very tortured rational of why donating to Amnesty international served his self interest. Trex on the other hand is focusing on (or what I think he is focusing on) is a rational foundation for universal morality (or universal human rights). That a rational argument (that is not based solely on self interest) could be made that supports the idea of international human rights.
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