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We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience ... Ethics is disturbing.

— Simon Blackburn Being Good (2001)

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Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.

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An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

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But it is logically impossible that there could exist an 'unowned' dent, a dent without a surface that is dented.

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But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.

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A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

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