Secular Humanists who believe in rule by logic and reasoning?

Question

How would you deal with those who know right from wrong, but misbehave anyway--like all of us. Wouldn't you establish rules for the benefit of all, and under whose reasoning?

Answer 1

I am not a secular humanist, but why do you believe that morality is about rules? Supposed someone asked you to describe ethics, but said that you could not use the term rules, rights, or principles; do you think it could be done?

HTH

Charles

Answer 2

First you ask,"How would I deal".... and at the end you ask
"under whose reasoning". Logic and reasoning dictate I
would choose my own reasoning since I am in sole control
of the power you are assigning me in the question. Now, let's assume that everyone thought the way I did, that is, no free will to think up stuff for himself. I would be in charge of a hive.
Free will. There's the rub. There's no way, I don't think, we
could establish equitable rules because that would imply
we don't have the reasoning powers to ask questions.Without this free will, you wouldn't have been able to ask this question
I can establish all I want but because of free will there will
be disagreements. Or am I to simply erase any of those who
disagreed until I'm left with those who agree with everything?
Back to the hive.

Answer 3

There are quite a few explanations for that. Generally, knowing something is wrong isn't necessarily enough to stop someone from doing it. People misbehave because they think that the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs.
The establishment of a different set of rules wouldn't stop people from breaking them.