Re: Politics and morality

Ron Peterson wrote:

> Lucien Saumur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Ron Peterson wrote:
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> >> Lucien Saumur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> > The role of the humanist is *logically* to help people, as I have
> >> > explained.
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> >> That's what humanitarians try to do.
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> > A humanitarian wants to help people because of a feeling of
> > compassion while a humanist helps people as a consequence of his
> > understanding.
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> 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.

The business of humanism is not to do "good work". It is not to start and
maintain soup kitchens. It is not to solve the problems of society but to
show how these problems may be solved. It is up to others to act to solve
them. The humanist does not need much resources to do what he has to do.