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Message: [QUOTE="monica e. hall, post: 229153, member: 166175"] Pegging away at morality ... Bob wondered why a grave marked with a cross is more worthy of respect than that of an ancient heathen? Well, to my mind, it isn't. Every religious person today is an atheist in respect of every other religion except their own, and some of us just go one step further. Morality (religious and/or temporal) has been used to civilise us (live harmoniously together), to oppress us (feudal system, slavery etc.), and to confuse us (this thread). I don't suppose any of us are going to get it absolutely right, but I am interested in the ideas of [i]creative morality[/i], in which the human origins of morality are explored (McNiven et al). Eliot Deutsch said, [i]One of the most difficult problems for much ethical theory is to delimit or mark off ethical actions - actions with ethical content from other kinds of actions. But, when moral judgement proper is understood to be directed to the formed content of an action and to be a discernment of the relative degree of personhood and freedom that is embodied therein and extended thereby, then clearly there is no need to arbitrarily mark off a special area of action for moral judgement.[/i] I think this suggests something compassionate about peoples' desire to salvage [i]Titanic[/i] artifacts. [/QUOTE]