Good and Evil: Universals?

[Bitman]

Originally posted by smoothmoniker
To assume that something is only true if it is scientifically provable is to exclude vast portions of the edifice of human knowledge.

That's a red herring; no one makes that assumption. All things can be analyzed scientifically, once all the terms are defined. Philosophy is about finding those definitions.

So what is the nature of a universal moral? Can an act be considered moral if it helps one person at the expense of another? I suppose our war in Iraq can be considered non-moral in that it wasn't specifically immoral, but killing some random people to help some others isn't terribly moral, regardless of the reason.

I think a universal moral would be something that helps some living things, but with no downside at all. Holding the door is moral; gassing Mosquito Lake Park is not.