Our Freedom of Expression Is Killing Us

[patrice]

159. I'm not sure I understand how you get that from OP. Maybe one thing we could talk about would

be: Standards don't NEED to be religiously defined, so religion would have no greater preference than any other humans.

Ethics, in general, is thought to be a rational secular effort to understand how best to treat one another.

You probably have also seen cases made for how atheists don't need religion or spirituality in order to be ethical people. They can arrive at completely rational principles that function the same as religious morals.

What I'm suggesting here is that people could discover their own standards, amongst themselves, for public "speech", kind of like we do on this board. Those standards could be derived from their own lives, not from abstract bullshit ideologies, just from what works and doesn't work in their own experiences and what works refers to how anyone has a right to not be harmed by the speech of others.

Maybe there's something I'm not thinking about here, because I assume that it's the sort of thing that would be worked out in actual situations.