Moral Compass

  So  recently tossed around  the idea of a moral compass app, to develop and
I'm thinking about the algorithms involved --- may need to talk to Mr. Knuth ,
on this topic.  But then I realized maybe I am already working on it.

But then I realized that, we have a defacto moral compass in the U.S. which is
actually the two party system I have been blogging about.  And is based
on  Euclidean system, of two parallel lines do not meet.  The surface is flat.

Now, I guess I must speak personally about the left and the right, and
anybody who knows me well would have to admit and I might have to
admit, leaning to the left, and even sometimes maybe lurching in that direction.
But in all honestly how can you have lived as long as I have without stumbling
to the right a bit?  But I know there are many who are diametrically opposed to
me, meaning they lean and lurch to the right etc.

So we have a lot of that, a lot of variations that brings us back to the two party
system:  the axiom is that morality is encompassed by these two poles.  And
so our sense of direction, of how to proceed toward the future, is based on
these poles and somewhere in the middle is the direction we need to head.

So you see the flaw?  The surface is not flat.  In has never been flat and
we only wish sometimes that it was flat.  In fact it may be hyperbolic
with steep slopes.  Nevertheless, however you describe the surface,
you have to come to the reality that morality can not be contained
between these two opposing poles.

Therefore, to me a system which is more closely attuned to actually
determining needs and then structuring solution to those " real "
needs would be better for determining social direction. Plus somehow
the rigidity of that bi-polar structure seems way too confining and also
as can be witnessed in recent times, easily distorted.