from the Pyrrholog
Why?
Why are we here, is it to improve the world? If it is to learn, then it is to improve, for that's what learning is about, improving the world, we learn how to do things that make living easier, more efficient, more powerful, or more important. It is important that we give other people a chance to grow. We cannot have philosophies which require dominion over other people. We cannot condone uniformity of thought, we celebrate diversity for its powerful characteristics.
There is no absolute truth for a human mind, that is unatainable and therefore exists only as an abstraction, an idea used to think about the real world. Truth is more a compass than a measure. There is instead only reasonable doubt and unreasonable doubt. With this in mind we do make judgements just as freely as dogmatists, but reserving always some estimation of how much error we might have introduced, always with the realization how much data we really have indicating what we think we know so far.
- Treat all with respect.
- People are equal in their differences, unique in their contributions, and distinct in their characteristics.
- Study carefully and reflect, then assent to what appears to be the case.
- Learn
- Preserve the ideas of others
- Advocate logic, and with logic balance
- Do not settle for nihilism, which is not skeptical or pyrrhonistic.
- Science is of the highest value and rank because it uses the pyrrhonist approach that all is theory. There is no bad science, just bad engineering and sometimes bad research practices.
- Define your terms
- Fortify all arguments, including the arguments of others, before disposing them
- Advocate freedom from oppression, and nothing less than total freedom of expression
You can see these are ethics for thinking and communicating rather than all behavior.