On Neutral Ethics

[Greg Crawford]

One of the areas of debate about our education system concerns the teaching if values. This is given as one of the reasons why over 30% of parents in NSW now send their children to Church Schools.   The usual rejoinder is that ethics are taught in public schools. However, what is taught is, as I understand it, a humanist ethic. This is considered “neutral” by its proponents.   It seems to me that the proponents of so-called “neutral” ethics do not appreciate that a humanist ethic is not neutral, but one position among many competing bases for ethics. Thus a humanist ethic is a denial of the idea that an ethic should be based in God.   - Greg