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I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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I Have Never Been Impressed By The

Robert A. Heinlein
I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
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As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. we never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. it is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. the childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.
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Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. you don't have to do drugs. i think our sunday schools should be turned into black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like hebrew schools for jewish people, or my asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn chinese or korean.
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Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. a formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths.
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. we need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. my life is full of meaning to me. the life around me must be full of significance to it. if i want others to respect my life, then i must respect the other life i see however strange it may be to mine. ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.
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