Re: Humanism in 2006

>> Any person who is a humanist will agree that they should behave as they
>> would wish others to behave, and furthermore, they would say that is what
>> others should do as well, within a reasonable range of behaviour.


< That could be anything. By that argument Osama is a humanist. >

My understanding of Osama Bin Laden (of course merely obtained from news
media assertions that he is (or was) an encourager of suicide bombers.

I do not accept that you as a fairly well educated person really consider
that is acting within a reasonable range of behaviour. I was not defining
humanism, I was arguing with your statement on the lines of suggesting that
human rights do not exist and that humanists can not provide a rational
argument for human rights. In short, the rational argument is that human
rights exist because we say they do. I doubt that a judge and jury would
accept a contention that the right to liberty of a person you had kidnapped
was merely a subjective opinion.


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