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Secular Morality - Ethics based solely on human faculties such as logic, reason or moral intuition, and not derived from purported supernatural revelation or guidance (which is the source of religious ethics). Secular ethics can be seen as a wide variety of moral and ethical systems drawing heavily on humanism, secularism and freethinking.

The majority of secular moral concepts consist, on the grand scale of the acceptance of social contracts, and on a more individual scale of either some form of attribution of intrinsic value to things, ethical intuitionism or of a logical deduction that establishes a preference for one thing over another, as with Occam's razor. Approaches like utilitarianism and ethical egoism are considered rather more radical. (wikipedia)

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Above we have a general explanation for secular morality. I would like to address the follow:

1. Let's pretend we live in a world without religion. How would we make a set of universal moral law?

2. Would this universal moral law require intersubjectivity?

3. Given that we lived by secular morality how would this change the world? Do you think it would be better or worse?