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Hey I thought I was agreeing with you in a way:

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I think most people here do not have anything that resembles a fully fleshed out ethical framework for making decisions that they logically work out from the ground up.

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formal system??? should we number possible ethical scenarious given a set of moral axioms. perhaps we could use the ten commandments.
I'm sure that whatever set of axioms we use you will encounter a problem statement somewhere along the line.
Just the nature of our fallen logic.

Aesthetic considerations aside, systems that appear logically consistent have some psychological appeal at least to the post-enlightement western mind.
Systems that are at least substantially complete are useful for legislative and social purposes.

I as a biblical scholar use a system that acknowledges its lack of logical consistency. I like the honesty of this.