I voted Remain. I felt that the arguments for and against Brexit were pretty evenly balanced, except in terms of economic risk – and maybe geopolitical risk. So why risk it?
But we did risk it. A reckless move, but not a morally indefensible one, as most Remainers are now saying.
Let me explain why I’m on the fence about the morality of the decision. Let me come at it in a rather eccentric way – by talking about ideas in a rather general way. I think we have to start by considering what our most basic common creed is, what unites us (in as far as anything does) as a nation.
I suggest that we call it secular humanism, our common creed. By this I mean that it’s a moral vision, of the worth of all human beings, that is framed in non-religious terms (which doesn’t make it anti-religious, by the way).
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