Quote:
Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Oh, Kenny, Kenny—you really need to get up with the times, my man. Concepts of right and wrong are so antiquated. Ethics are out. Justifications and legal wranglings are in. Get with the program, or else I may have to shut my ears!  |
Concepts of right and wrong are great - when you're teaching a child which can't yet understand or be interested in precise, real explanation. They're always needed for that, but at some point in life a man is expected to stop reasoning with those.
Ethics are like esperanto - trying to copy, analyze and adapt to reality, but really artificial. Some people speak esperanto, but it never really caught on. That doesn't mean each society doesn't have its own rules, only that they can rarely be described with simple words, and so speaking of the world in such general terms as ethics is a hopeless simplification.
Justice, justifications, courts and legalities are a way to show who's in control without unnecessary bloodshed, as always.
Just my $0.02
