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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
-Bill Moyers
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Our Very Lives Depend On The Ethics

Bill Moyers
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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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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