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that's different
does anyone know who Schweitzer is nowadays? he was a xian theologian who won a Nobel Prize for developing an ethic of humanitarianism called Reverence for Life . If you've ever watched The Fifth Element that is the ethic. "good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil"
I don't think there is anything arbitrary about the evil of slavery or pedophilia.
And emergency toilet paper. If needed, we started with the Murdoch section.