Morality does not depend upon, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 274

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Morality does not depend upon whether or not one permits self-honesty within the equation — everyone does that — but whether or not one permits the destruction of a merely presumed morality for a genuine one by actualizing it.  For those who do not find the innocence in their morality their untested naïvety, we can only communicate our amorality, that being as far as their thought can go to meet our actualization without provoking their own.  




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