1) Global warming - not really a moral issue, but if it is confirmed, it is the most perilous danger mankind has yet faced.
2) War - although it has always been a feature of civilization, NUCLEAR WAR has the potential to destroy the planet. That makes it almost as dangerous as #1, although we have more ability to stop war before doing irreversible damage.
3) Access to health care - in order to progress as a society, we need to be able to control disease. One pandemic could wipe out a large portion of humanity.
4) Poverty - like health care, society can not thrive and prosper if people are living in abject misery, lacking communication skills, don't have food, clothing, shelter, etc.
5) Drug & alcohol abuse - destroys both individuals, families, and the fabric of society. This is a by-product of a miserable life, and abuse often leads to addiction, which is worse.
6) Bullying in schools - anything that erodes the self-worth of a child can potentially stunt their capacity to achieve as an adult. A truly enlightened society should be able to recognize and mitigate this problem.
7) Divorce - although it has been around forever, in our litigation happy society, it often becomes a tool to "take ones partner to the cleaners", or worse, results in a single parent trying to raise children alone with no help from the other parent. This only contributes to the erosion of values in our society.
8) Animal rights - we possess the nutritive and agricultural technology to feed the world without eating animals. There is no longer a need to kill them to survive, other than personal desire. Industry can easily find substitute methods for testing that do not require animals. Some cutting-edge medical technologies can not progress without the use of test animals, however since we can utilize these animals without causing them undue pain and misery, there is no excuse for animal cruelty in the lab.
9) Abortion - I have no moral quandary with this. The earth is facing overpopulation within the next century. We simply cannot afford to have babies indiscriminantly. Although it is preferable to allow life to follow it's natural course, abortion is a necessary feature on planet earth. Anyone who disagrees is not seeing the big picture.
10) Homosexuality - why care? It's been going on since the beginning. It's widespread in the animal kingdom (which we are a part of), and it's never going away, so there's no logic in fighting it. Homosexuals are not dangerous, they aren't hurting anyone, and they aren't forcing their way of life on anyone, so leave them be. It's not their choice anyway.
My "tradition" is none. I am an atheist and a humanist.
(ya just gotta love the Christian Republican's answers... makes you wonder how we ever made it out of the trees.)
2007-03-14 14:35:10
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answered by Anonymous
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1. War
2. Poverty
3. Access to health care
4. Global warming
All these have huge direct effects (or in the case of 4 potential effects) on justice and human happiness.
5. Animal rights
6. Bullying in schools
Both of these are important as indicators of how we treat the vulnerable, as well as in their own right.
7. Drug and alcohol abuse
A significant issue, but I'm not sure that it's primarily moral.
8. Divorce
9. Abortion
Morally complex issues, without a straightforward answer.
10 Homosexuality.
A non issue morally, except when moral positions are used in an abusive way.
Atheist secular humanist.
2007-03-14 14:25:59
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answered by Anonymous
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certainty isn't in question. form as a high quality of a being is the place you come across convenience and chosen to furnish your interest. If that's the cut back of your certainty then you certainly've plenty to income and to take into your real potential that's cosmic and limitless. God is spirit and so formless. You mistake your contemporary expression, human, as definitive and it is not. that's a textile expression able to many acts for good and likewise errors of conceitedness. You too are spirit in human adventure. you're sure and limited on your realm of perception that all and sundry which you spot is all that's obtainable to you. quite, you have plenty greater to which you will attain for. The God you think of you have taken carry of a procedures exceeds your textile carry close. you have limited him to a e book that isn't greater effective than a beginning element. it's time to get busy on discovery and an end to quandary by way of apologetics. all people could have faith . . . sitting interior the boat.
2016-10-02 03:36:17
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answered by ? 4
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Most concerned to least:
Poverty
Global warming
War
Access to health care
Bullying (anywhere, really)
Drug and alcohol abuse
abortion
animal rights
divorce
homosexuality
The issues that affect the most people are the most important issues to my mind.
Issues such as divorce or homosexuality are personal matters.
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2007-03-14 14:19:18
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answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6
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Starting with least concerned
Global Warming - Al Gore is lying, it's not caused by CO2 it's caused by natural fluctuations in global climate. Just 500 or so years ago we were in a mini ice-age and about 800 years ago it was possible to grow crops on Greenland; Greenland is completly ice covered now.
Bullying In Schools - This is totally overrated.
Animal Rights - I'm not a freaking tree hugger. (Or animal hugger, as the case may be.)
Access to Healthcare - Moral issue?
War - I'm anti-war but I think that we need to fight back, so I am pro Iraq war ect.
Poverty - Get a freaking job hobo.
Drug & Achohol abuse - bad.
Divorce - Wrong unless your spouse cheated on you.
Homosexuality - GROSS OUT FACTOR. I'm a complete homophobe, and the bible teaches me homosexuality is wrong. It's immoral.
Abortion - Slaughter of babies. Those babies would grow up to be people like you and me. Baby genocide is bad. God formed the baby, "In his mother's womb."
2007-03-14 14:17:10
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answered by glsbnewt21 3
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war
abortion (against)
health care
drugs & alcohol
bullying
poverty
global warming
animal rights
divorce
homosexuality (not against)
Secular Humanist
2007-03-14 15:13:30
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answered by ? 4
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poverty
animal rights
bullying in schools
d&a abuse
health care
war
**the rest are personal choices that I, nor my religion, have a right to get involved in**
2007-03-14 14:16:55
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answered by AVATARD 1
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