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> That's probably because we have yet to discover any universal moral standards.

Actively engaging in immoral behaviour shouldn't be rewarded. Given this perrogative, standards such as: Be kind to your kin, are universally accepted, as far as I'm aware.

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There are many people out there who beat their children (and believe that's fine). While those people may claim to agree with being kind to their kin, they understand it very differently than I would.

If you beat your child to "teach them how to be", you will find people disagree on whether that is being kind to your kin or not.

Natural human language just doesn't support objective truths easily. It takes massive work to constrain it enough to match only the singular meaning you are trying to convey.

How do you build an axiom for "Kind"?

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