Re: Politics and morality

Lucien Saumur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Ron Peterson wrote:

>> Lucien Saumur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> > The role of the humanist is *logically* to help people, as I have 
>> > explained.

>> That's what humanitarians try to do.

> A humanitarian wants to help people because of a feeling of 
> compassion while a humanist helps people as a consequence of his 
> understanding.

I am not sure of the feelings of humanitarians, but I would have to 
agree that they are trying to do good works.

Your comment on humanists is a little vague and ambiguous. As humanists, 
humanists don't have the resources to do good works, so humanists can 
only suggest and advocate solutions to society's problems.

-- 
   Ron