> I suspect the private desire to please oneself motivates apathy to a strict morality forbidding that self-pleasure. More so than any supposed rationality; see

> I suspect the private desire to please oneself motivates apathy to a strict morality forbidding that self-pleasure. More so than any supposed rationality; see atheists and religion. That theory of yours has legs, imo. (see below ;) > Through the long years Russell is borrowing heavily from king Solomon here .. /g