You can certainly look at how they feature in various religions & that is what I do with Christianity but the principles can be distilled.
And argued for separately from whether they ever appeared in any particular myths or not. And they should be to be more widely relevant.
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The principle of fairness, for example, appears nearly everywhere & we can discuss different conceptions of it & how to implement it.
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On their own merits using ethical arguments & practical consequences regardless of what various myths have said about it.
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Apart from anything else, there simply isn't time to look at hundreds of interpretations of thousands of myths when considering ethics.
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If its what inspires ur ethical argument, distil ethical bit & argue for it on its own merits. It will have seemed right to you for a reason
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And you can argue for that reason logically according to principles and consequences.
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