What rules are appropriate for a moral code?
Ultimately, it is arbitrary as to what rules a community may decide to include in its moral code. Some communities try to concentrate on those issues in which one human is harming another, but some communities will also have moral rules that include issues such as harming your own self and even issues in which there is no real harm to anyone. Further, we must recognize that deciding whether a rule ought to be included in our moral code always involves a judgment call with little to go on. In fact, many actions provide pleasure to some but pain or fear to others! Many of the morals of our present society do in fact include activities classified as “consensual”. See the book “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do” [6] for a good discussion on this subject. Since it is a fact that there are people who simply want to control your behavior without regard to whether such behavior may or may not harm anyone else, we must take a personal stand as to what our own moral code will be. We just can’t b
