So what is right?

The French Quebec leader that says that a crucifix is not a religious symbol. Catholic Priest that says there are no Catholic LGBT, like these things are mutually exclusive; perhaps they are.

So is it possible to create a universal ethical standard, something like the UN Charter of Human Rights? The short answer is no, because the UN Human Rights charter is all inclusive, and does not eliminate things that are not rights like false belief. It allows indoctrination of people, and youths with false/untrue statements/concepts that are wrong/false/opinion.

It turns out the primary virtue must be prudence to allow for sorting of statements, evidence based verse opinion based. To add to the difficulty, all prudence is based on existing knowledge. So there is a problem if/when the existing knowledge is wrong or does not allow questioning of traditional beliefs.

So in an overpopulated world as we have become in the last 50-60 years, what is truth?  Many people do not accept this reality, and the impact recognizing this has on one, and one's outlook on life and the future. We see things like Harper yapping on about limits when the planet as we know it is doomed due to free carbon dioxide. Doomed, I say. The earth carbon dioxide level will keep on rising if we shut off half of the fossil fuel... due to the 7.7b people. We people produce about the same amount of Co2 as we produce in burning 500 liters fossil fuels. Well not quite but close. The only solution is to reduce the population in the future... If we start now, with a one child policy world wide... perhaps humans can survive. If we carry on, well the economic engine keeps driving us, we are beyond anything the governments are willing to do now.

To little to late. We are doomed. It does not matter now how fast we try to paddle, we will go over the falls... unless something happens, and that might be worse but save us. Nuclear war, epidemic, major war, something, asteroid strike, eruption of Yosemite Sam, crop failure...something.