| Any reasonable person- such as can stand trail for crimes committed- is considered capable of using logic and reason well enough to be a responsible member of society. This qualifies him to be reason-able enough to follow something like the golden rule- or the more formal categorical imperative as Kant set it out.
The Muslims are more fundamental than the Christians- yet Jesus did not say you can forget about the commandments now, so Christianity has actually adapted itself to modern society. They do not stone somebody to death for anything anymore. They accept the Earth is not the centre of the universe, etc. It just proves that religious rules are not the absolute when we think about morality.
A closed set of rules versus a system process- the system can adapt and change and keep up with reality eg abortions, divorces, cloning, euthanasia, homosexuality, etc. |