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> For example, the Commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is anything but an axiom. All but the most unreasonable followers will be able to produce some circumstance where killing is mo…

> Both of these things are also highly likely to cause you suffering because most people who are not sociopaths do not enjoy the direct experience of causing someone suffering and …

By axiom OP meant "assumed truth on which we base all of our other deductions" not "a self-evident truth"

Only partly, there is still a large degree of arbitrariness based on the social environment within the biologically constrained bounds

That question is not resolvable in any meaningful way. You can justify anything with a rationalization

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You're assuming a logical system, but these "axioms" aren't like math, trying to find a contradiction is itself a moral judgement. So you're just arguing in circles. None of the gr…