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Originally Posted by Willravel
Break the social contract and you're unethical. It's a mob decision.
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Yes, ethics is based on a set of social and cultural rules as established by a particular group. Ethics cannot be completely subjective. If anything, I'd say they are more objective when you look at the most basic fears and desires of humanity.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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