What do you mean? It's just an informal statement of operating principles for my own interactions with the world. A code of laws to govern groups of unrelated people would have to be far more organized and detailed.
Given your previous stance on war, does moral 1 make war an impossibility?
For me, yes. I couldn't initiate a war, and would certainly try to prevent one, if I were in a position to.
What constitutes avoidable.
Avoidable harm? There is all kinds of harm being done all the time - deliberately or carelessly.
Don't hurt people or animals or the environment for fun or profit. Don't contaminate the river with effluent from a gold-mine; don't take irresponsible chances like driving drunk; don't hunt rhinos for heir horn; don't burn anthills with a magnifying glass; don't cheap out on safety equipment for your employees; don't vote for a government that employs racist police and gives tax cuts to the rich while people go hungry.
Can I kill shoot a psycho, if hes charging my children with a knife drawn?
Of course you can shoot him. I would - hope not fatally. But I wouldn't shoot a trespasser on my land or approve capital punishment. Self-defence and the protection of potential victims is unavoidable. Some accidents are unavoidable, simply because we're fallible.
what if I don't want to help, for various reasons. Feeling lazy, or not too fond of the person etc
I will not respect you.
Does 3 mean that I should let random people joy ride in my car?
I didn't suggest you abandon reason or common sense.
"Share your toys" is simply a habit we try to teach small children. By age 4, we expect them to exercise discretion in applying this principle. Isit too much to ask of adults?
4. I don't understand anything fully. I look at everything with the ideological presumption that I may be wrong. A subtle version of Descartes doubt. Does this mean i can not judge anything?
I would advise you to withhold judgment as long as possible, while learning as much as possible about the situation, especially when your decision might result in unfair damage to another sentient being. Of course, we can't help forming opinions and having suspicions. But don't lynch the guy who kinda looks like the one that probably kidnapped the baby!
As a Christian, I may discern, but don't judge because there is only one who knows all. Is your position similar or do you still judge in certain situations.
Close enough in principle. Of course, we
have to make decisions about all kinds of things in life, including things that involve other people. Use discretion; try to make allowances.
5 could be interpreted as, put up with bullying, accept that your at the bottom of the food chain. Hope that theyl stop because you are a good example.
That's the turn-the-other-cheek principle.
No, I didn't mean that. Just the common tolerance necessary for human coexistence: be aware that you're not everybody's ideal of a companion, either, and try not to criticize too much.
[How you define it is up to you.]
Here is the biggest problem when interpreting as an individual. We all have our own bias and set of desires which filter the way we look at the world, and the way we conduct ourselves. I personally, can understand what you mean in your statement(besides the judging), but many people would skew this code to suit their personal lifestyles.
Of course. They each have their own principles and convictions; what they think is right and wrong to do. That's what a personal moral code is.
The difference with Christianity is Jesus, his life is an example. It's more than just a set of rules, and it's difficult to interpret his way of life in the wrong way.
You couldn't tell that by the way a lot of preachers behave!
As sinners, Christians can accept that they may make mistakes, as we are not perfect. But must repent, and make right the things we have done wrong.
Except for the sin part, that's not so different from the general principles by which every family and tribe operates, and on which whole big national and international legal codes are based.
This example aspect, is hard to assimilate, but very necessary. We don't strive to be perfect, like Christ was, but we try to live as he intended humans to live.
Fine.
But who is willing to be the living example of an atheist moral code.
There is no "atheist moral code". There are atheists with morals, just as there are theists with morals. There are good people, whom we admire and they become our role models. This was so before people had organized law or religion; before they had clothes or houses. It's never been any different, fundamentally.